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Perennial or biennial hispid or strigose-pubescent herbs, mostly with thick woody roots, alternate or basal narrow leaves, and small white racemose-paniculate or densely thyrsoid flowers. Calyx very deeply 5-parted or 5-divided, the segments lanceolate, more or less spreading or recurved in fruit. Corolla funnelform or salverform, mostly crested in the throat, 5-lobed. Stamens included. Ovary 4-divided; style mostly short. Nutlets 4, laterally attached to the receptacle, not keeled, their margins acute or winged. [Greek, mountain nut.] Called White Forget-me-not.
About 9 species, natives of western North America and Mexico. Type species: Oreocarya suffruticosa (Torr.) Greene.
Inflorescence racemose-paniculate; nutlets smooth.
1. O. suffruticosa.
Inflorescence thyrsoid or thyrsoid-glomerate; nutlets rough.
Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx, little longer than the lobes. Densely rough-hairy, 6'-18' high.
2. O. glomerata Silvery appressed-pubescent, 3 -6 high.
3. O. sericea.
Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, 2 or 3 times as long as the lobes.
4. O. fulvocanescens.
Fig. 3519
Myosotis suffruticosa Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 225.
1827. Eritrichium Jamesii Torr. in Marcy's Rep. 294. 1853. Krynitzkia Jamesii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 278.
1885. Oreocarya suffruticosa Greene, Pittonia 1: 57. 1887.
Perennial, rather stout, branched from the base and sometimes also above, strigose-pubescent or somewhat hirsute, 5'-12' high. Upper leaves linear, 1/2'-1' long, the lower oblanceolate, somewhat longer, obtuse or acute; racemes slender, panicled; pedicels about 1" long; calyx canescent and somewhat hispid, the segments slightly spreading, or erect in fruit; bractlets longer than the fruiting calyx; corolla 11/2"-3" broad; its tube about equalling the calyx; nutlets smooth, nearly 1" long, shining, closely fitting together, triangular, acute-margined, nearly as wide as high.
In dry soil, western Nebraska and Wyoming to Texas and Arizona. May-Aug.
Fig. 3520
Cynoglossum glomeratum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 729.
1814. Eritrichium glomeratum DC. Prodr. 10: 131. 1846. Krynitzkia glomerata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:
279. 1885. O. glomerata Greene, Pittonia 1: 58. 1887.
Perennial or biennial, densely hispid; stem erect, stout, simple or branched, 6-18' high. Leaves spatulate or the upper linear, obtuse, 1'-2 1/2' long, the basal commonly tufted; inflorescence of thyrsoid clusters, the short dense lateral spike-like clusters mostly longer than the subtending bracts; calyx densely bristly; corolla 3"-5" broad; fruit pyramidal, the nutlets triangular-ovate, acute, acutely margined, papillose on the back.
In dry soil, Manitoba to Nebraska, New Mexico and Utah. May-Sept.
Oreocarya thyrsifldra Greene, a related species of the Rocky Mountain region, enters our limits in western Nebraska.
Fig. 3521
Eritrichium glomeratum var. humile A. Gray, Proc.
Am. Acad. 10: 61. 1874. Not E. humile DC. Krynitzkia sericea A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 279.
1885. Oreocarya sericea Greene, Pittonia 1: 58. 1887.
Perennial, low, tufted from the woody root; stems usually simple, 3'-6' high, silvery appressed-pubescent, or hirsute above. Leaves linear-spatulate, 1/2'-1' long, i"-i1/2" wide, obtuse or acutish, imbricated on the short sterile shoots and at the bases of the flowering stems; inflorescence thyrsoid or glomerate, usually short; calyx densely hispid; corolla 2"-3" broad, its tube not longer than the calyx; style short; nutlets acutely margined, acute, papillose on the back.
In dry soil, Northwest Territory to Nebraska and Utah. May-Sept.
Fig. 3522
Eritrichium fulvocanescens A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad.
10: 61. 1874. Eritrichium glomeratum var. (?) fulvocanescens S.
Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 243. pl. 23. f. 7. 1871. Oreocarya fulvocanescens Greene, Pittonia 1: 58. 1887.
Perennial, tufted, similar to the preceding species but densely strigose or hirsute. Leaves spatulate, or oblanceolate, obtuse, the lower and basal ones \'-\\' long; inflorescence of thyrsoid clusters; calyx densely setose with yellowish hairs; corolla about 2" broad, its tube longer than the calyx, 2 or 3 times the length of the lobes; style filiform; nutlets acutely margined, tuberculate on the back.
In dry soil, western Nebraska (according to Webber), Wyoming to Nevada and New Mexico. May-Aug.
 
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