BUGLOSSOIDESMoench - CORN-GROMWELL
Scientific Description:
Annual, setulose to strigulose herbs. Stem simple or much-branched, leafy. Cymes terminal, bracteate. Calyx divided almost to base, ± strongly accrescent in fruit. Corolla white or pale to dark blue, rarely purplish; faucal scales absent, throat with 5 longitudinal bands of hairs. Filaments inserted below middle of tube, anthers included. Nutlets ± pyriform in lateral outline but with ± incurved beak, depressed-pyriform in dorsal view, with ± bigibbous shoulders in lower half and laterally compressed beak, with strong dorsal and ventral keel in upper half, tuberculate-rugose to scrobiculate.
Reference:
Edmondson JR (1978). Buglossoides Moench, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 315.
Public Description:
Buglossoides is a genus of annual and perennial herbs commonly known as “corn-gromwell”, is native to Europe and Asia. There are approximately 11 species in the word and 4 species (4 taxa) in Türkiye. These plants have blue or white small funnel-shaped flowers and are covered in fine bristles or hairs. They grow naturally in habitats ranging from sunny scrub to rocky slopes and woodland areas.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buglossoides, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Anonymous 2 (2015). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/genus/buglossoides/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Anonymous 3 (2015). http://www.bizimbitkiler.org.tr/v2/turkce.php/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Anonymous 4 (2015). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Boraginaceae/Buglossoides/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Körüklü ST (2012). Buglossoides Moench, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, s. 225.
