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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Boraginaceae
Onosmodium bejariense A.DC.
marble-seed, smooth onosmodium, western false gromwell
Onosmodium: named for likeness to genus Onosma which means "smell of a donkey"
bejariense: from Bejar, earlier name of San Antonio, Texas
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-40" tall forb, coarse, roughly hairy throughout; several stems; woody roots |
| Flower: | cream to green, 5-parted, 1/3"-2/3" long, tubular-shaped, hairy outside, lobes 1 1/2 - 2 times as long as wide and with pointed tips, style protruding; inflorescence a helix-shaped, branched cluster (cyme); blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | white, smooth nutlet |
| Leaf: | many, stalkless, gray-green |
| Habitat: | sun; dry; prairies, woods; in rocky, sandy soil |
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