• NSF NEON | Open Data to Understand our Ecosystems
  • Biorepository Data Portal

  • Home
  • Search
    • Sample search
    • Map search
    • Dynamic Species List
    • Taxonomic Explorer
  • Images
    • Image Browser
    • Image Search
  • Datasets
    • Research Datasets and Special Collections
    • Carabidae Checklists with Keys
    • Checklist: Research Sites - Invertebrates
    • Checklist: Research Sites - Plants
    • Checklist: Research Sites - Vertebrates
  • Sample Use
    • Sample Use Policy
    • Sample Request
    • Sample Archival Request
    • Dataset Publishing
  • How to Cite
  • Additional Information
    • Tutorials and Help
    • Biorepository Staff
    • About NEON
    • NEON Data Portal
    • ASU Biocollections
    • About Symbiota
  • Getting Started
Login New Account Sitemap
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae image
Liz Makings
  • Field Guide
  • Resources
Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program

Herbs, shrubs, or trees with bristly hairs, usually simple hairs, alternate and spiral. Inflorescences determinate, often a scorpioid cyme, with perfect and radial flowers, calyx of 5 sepals, distinct or connate, corolla usually rotate and bearing appendages, funnel-like or tubular, stamens 5, epipetalous. Superior ovary with variable placentation, 2 connate carpels, divided in 2, making 4 chambers, with a gynobasic style.  Fruits a drupe, schizocarp, or capsule with nutlets.

Species within checklist: Santa Rita Experimental Range NEON (SRER) Plants - Desert Southwest (D14)
Amsinckia intermedia
Image of Amsinckia intermedia
Cryptantha angustifolia
Image of Cryptantha angustifolia
Cryptantha barbigera
Image of Cryptantha barbigera
Cryptantha crassisepala
Image of Cryptantha crassisepala
Cryptantha decipiens
Image of Cryptantha decipiens
Cryptantha muricata
Images
not available
Cryptantha pterocarya
Image of Cryptantha pterocarya
Eremocarya micrantha
Image of Eremocarya micrantha
Lappula occidentalis
Image of Lappula occidentalis
Lithospermum incisum
Image of Lithospermum incisum
Oreocarya suffruticosa
Image of Oreocarya suffruticosa
Pectocarya heterocarpa
Image of Pectocarya heterocarpa
Pectocarya platycarpa
Image of Pectocarya platycarpa
Pectocarya recurvata
Image of Pectocarya recurvata
Plagiobothrys arizonicus
Image of Plagiobothrys arizonicus
Plagiobothrys pringlei
Images
not available
NSF NEON | Open Data to Understand our Ecosystems The National Ecological Observatory Network is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.