| There are some very good photographs and descriptions of the following plants:
Viper’s bugloss Echium vulgare |
| In Britain the family Boraginaceae (the Borage family)are dicotyledons, with flower petals present and fused. The ovary is superior.
Leaves generally alternate and without stipules. Flowers usually have 5 toothed calyx, corolla usually zygomorphicrphic 5 lobed . Stamens 5 (or 2) one nutlet Genera eg.Echium, Borago, Symphytum, Myosotis |
| Myosotis | Calyx teeth | Stem hairs | ||
| equilateral | isosocles | spread | adpressed | |
| M. scorpoides | X | X | X | |
| M. secunda | X | X | X | |
| M. laxa | X | X | ||
| M. lsylvatica | X | X | ||
