LITTLE CRYPTANTHA
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Cryptantha minima Rydb.
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| Seward County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 2-10 inches |
| Family: Boraginaceae - Borage Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July |
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| Stems: | | Plants spreading-bristly. Stems 1, decumbent to ascending, branched from base. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, simple; blades narrowly linear to oblanceolate, .4 to 1 inch long, .04 to .2 inch wide, strigose abaxially and adaxially. | | Inflorescences: | | Helicoid spikes or racemes, axillary and/or terminal; bracts present. | | Flowers: | | Usually radially symmetric; sepals 5, connate proximally, calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, .08 to .1 inch; corolla white, tubular, 04 to .08 inch wide; lobes 5, spreading, apex obtuse to rounded; fornices present; stamens 5, adnate to corolla tube; anthers included, pistil 1; style 1, included, undivided. | | Fruits: | | Schizocarps; nutlets 1-4, gray or brownish gray, ovoid to 3-sided, .06 to .07 inch, tuberculate to papillose, 1-seeded. | | Habitat: | | Sandy to gravelly shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies, sandsage prairies. | | Distribution: | | West 1/2 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Cryptantha, hidden and flowers, and minima smallest. |
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