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Common Borage - Borago officinalis
Other Names:
Starflower
General Description
Taprooted annual normally branching above. Herbage hispid-setose. Calyx deeply 5-lobed. Collora rotate, resembling the genus Solanum. Anthers exserted, connivent around the style; filaments with an elongate appendage. Nutlets with a basal protuberance (Jepson eFlora; Flora of the Great Plains).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Non-native
Range Comments
Scattered occurrences in Montana.
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 9
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Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus griseocollis (Thorp et al. 1983).
Management
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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