Cynoglossum
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Genus Description - Cor salverform or broadly funnelform, the short tube closed by the fornices; stamens included; nutlets bearing conspicuous, stout, glochidiate prickles, attached to the gynobase near their connivent summits, their rounded bases divergent; gynobase prolonged beyond the nutlets into a conspicuous persistent subulate organ; taprooted, ± robust, leafy herbs, the fls pedicellate in axillary and terminal bractless false racemes. 80, cosmop.