Erect or ascending herb, 20–80 cm high; stems strigose or with long, stiff, mostly spreading hairs. Leaves with both surfaces stiffly hairy, apex acute, base cuneate to subcordate, margins undulate; rosette leaves linear to oblanceolate, 3–9 cm long, 5–20 mm wide; cauline leaves linear-lanceolate, becoming smaller towards inflorescence. Sepals narrow-elliptic, 3–5 mm long, acute, scarcely connate at base, elongating to 6–10 mm in fruit; corolla 5–8 mm long, throat constricted and closed by hairy saccate scales, deep yellow, tube much longer than lobes; stamens inserted low in corolla-tube. Mericarps ovoid, c. 3 mm long, transversely wrinkled; dorsal ridge covered with pointed tubercles. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, GipP, NIS, EGU, HSF. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW. Native to North America. A widespread weed of pastures, cultivated land and other disturbed sites in drier and warmer parts of the State.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Boraginaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 387–411. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
