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Boraginaceae

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  

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