Weed
gypsyflower
NutletNutlet:
A small, dry, indehiscent carpel of a fruit, usually composed of one quarter of the fruit with each enclosing a single seed (e.g. mints).
Broadly obovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest.
Brown
The surface is covered with large tubercles with crowns of retro-pointed spines.
Scar is large and obovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest. on the ventralVentral:
Adaxial; of the side of an organ facing the axis (compare dorsal).
flat surface.
NutletNutlet:
A small, dry, indehiscent carpel of a fruit, usually composed of one quarter of the fruit with each enclosing a single seed (e.g. mints). covered in large tubercles with crowns of small spines pointing backwards; in the photo, most of the crowns are broken off. The dorsalDorsal:
Upper side or back of a seed or fruit.
flat surface has a sparser covering of tubercles.
State Noxious Weed: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming
Not included
For more information, see ISMA fact sheet.
Boraginaceae
Cynoglossum officinale L.
