| Amsinckia menziesii (Lehm.) Nels. & Macbr. | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Echium menziesii Lehm. | ||
| Description | Stem simple to branched, spreading-hispid; leaves linear to oblong or ovate, spreading-hispid, not crowded at base; sepals almost equal, free; corolla yellow, 4-7 mm broad, the tube scarcely exserted, throat open, glabrous; stamens inserted above middle of tube; nutlet ovate, tuberculate, and often rugose. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; an introduced weed. Type locality not given, presumably the north- west coast of North America. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.