This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Borage. Color, white. This is the. only white species of forget-me-not. We think of the flower as blue, and in the blue section the genus will be more at length described. This species is very bristly and sticky. Flowers, small, in one-sided racemes at the top of erect stems, 3 to 15 inches high. Leaves, obtuse or oblong, near the base of the stem, quite hairy, almost bristly. April to July.
Dry and rocky woods and hills, Maine to Florida and Texas.
 
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