''Cryptantha flavoculata'' is a species of flowering plant in the
borage family known by the common name roughseed cryptantha. It is native to the western United States from
California to
Montana, where it is common in many types of habitat. It is a perennial herb growing an unbranching stem up to about 35 centimeters tall from a woody
caudex
A caudex (plural: caudices) of a plant is a stem, but the term is also used to mean a rootstock and particularly a basal stem structure from which new growth arises.pages 456 and 695
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. It is coated in soft bristly hairs. The densely hairy to bristly leaves vary in shape and may reach 11 centimeters long. The
inflorescence is a cylindrical cluster or rounded head of flowers which elongates as the fruits develop from the bottom up. Each tubular flower is about a centimeter long topped with a five-lobed white corolla with yellow appendages at the center.
External links
Jepson Manual TreatmentUSDA Plants ProfilePhoto gallery
flavoculata
Plants described in 1899
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