CORN GROMWELL
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Lithospermum arvense L.
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| Pottawatomie County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-20 inches |
| Family: Boraginaceae - Borage Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May, June, July |
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| Stems: | | Erect or ascending, simple or branched from base. Plants strigose. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, cauline, sessile; blade spatulate to elliptic, oblong, or narrowly lanceolate, 2/5 to 2 inches long, 1/25 to 2/5 inch, tip rounded or acute. | | Inflorescences: | | Axillary, flowers solitary. | | Flowers: | | Calyx .2 to .28 inch, lobes 5, linear to triangular; corolla white, salverform or funnelform, tube .2 to .33 inch, 5-lobed, lobes spreading, entire, not crinkly, apex rounded to obtuse; stamens 5, included. | | Fruits: | | Schizocarps; nutlets 4, light brown to gray, ovoid or angular, 1/10 to 1/7 inch, irregularly wrinkled and pitted. | | Habitat: | | Roadsides, pastures, waste places; often in sandy soil | | Distribution: | | East 3/5 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Introduced | | Comments: | | Lithospermum, stone and seed, and arvense of cultivated fields. |
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