Photo of a leafy shoot bearing four, white, funnel-shaped flowers. In fresh flowers, the throat is yellow, but it darkens to orange in older flowers. A bee sits on the edge of one flower. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

There are other ways that flowers change. In Cordia boissieri, only the throat of the tubular flower changes. The throat starts yellow and ages to orange. #Boraginaceae #color #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of the surface of a leaf covered with short, conical hairs. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Look closely (zoom in!) at the leaves of Ehretia microphylla to see the pointed hairs that give these leaves an 𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 surface. “Echinus” is Latin for hedgehog. #Boraginaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Composite figure showing the distribution and appearance of Cryptantha stylosa. Top left: satellite view of Isla San Ambrosio with marked observation sites. Top right: map showing the island’s position about 900 km west of the Chilean mainland. Bottom images: a low, woody shrub growing on rocky volcanic ground and a close-up of its silvery-green shoots with small white flowers.

A plant nearly 900 km offshore 🌊

#Cryptantha stylosa is endemic to Isla San Ambrosio, a tiny island far west of central #Chile. Long treated as a taxonomic outlier, it turns out to be a striking example of long-distance dispersal in #Boraginaceae. @phytokeys.pensoft.net

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Photo showing a blue flower borne at the tip of a flowerhead. Around it are one wrinkled, faded blue floret and several immature pink ones. The mature flower has pink stamens bearing purple anthers. The flowerhead is covered in tiny, hairy flower bracts where other florets previously were. In the background, two other blurry flowerheads can be seen. Watermark identifying photographer as Geneviève Laurin.

Viper's bugloss
Some more summer color to liven up winter.
I miss doing my daily macrophotography walk, so I am going through my archives for photos I took but had yet to get a good look at.
#Botany #NativePlants #Boraginaceae #Echium #Macrophotography #SciArt #PhotoHour

Cerinthe minor L.
Boraginaceae
West Azerbaijan province, Iran
June 2025
Elevation 1300m
#Boraginaceae #botany #ecology

Omphalodes verna Moench
#OmphalodesVerna #CreepingForgetMeNot #CreepingNavelwort #BlueEyedMary #Omphalodes #Boraginaceae #Rhizomatous #Herbaceous #Perennial #BlueFlowers #SpringFlowers #Flowerphotography #Naturephotography #Norway #Botany #Plants

2020/05/30
@Bergen

Pulmonaria obscura Dumort.
#pulmonaria #SuffolkLungwort #lungwort #Boraginaceae #spring #flower #plant #vinyl #bloom #flowers #wildflowers #purpleflower #nature #flowerstagram #naturelover #botany

2020/04/25
@Bergen

Myosotis spp.
#ForgetMeNot #Myosotis #Boraginaceae #Flowers #Wildflowers #Flowerphotography #Naturephotography #Gardening #Nature #BlueFlowers #Garden #Plants #Norway

2020/05/28
@Bergen

The photograph shows a close-up of a delicate blue wildflower with five soft, rounded petals radiating like a star. The petals have a faint, velvety texture, shimmering under the sunlight. At the flower’s center lies a tuft of fine, white filaments, giving it a frosted, glowing heart. Around the main bloom, more blossoms and unopened buds spread outward on thin, hairy stems with a purplish tint. The background is blurred into a soft green, highlighting the flower’s vivid blue. A watermark, “@ahaktekin,” is visible in the lower left corner.

Blue Star of the Sapphire Constellation

#NaturePhotography #Photography #WildEarth #BlueFlower #StarInBlue #Wildflower #Bugloss #Boraginaceae #MeadowStar #FloralDetails #PetalStories #FlowerWhispers #FlowerOfTheDay #InBloom #Bloomscrolling #NaturalBeauty #ColorInNature #VisualPoetry #MusicInNature

Alkanna orientalis (L.) Boiss. شنگار شرقی
Boraginaceae
Kalibar, Iran
June 2025
Elevation 1800m
#alkanna #Boraginaceae #Iran #botany

#heliotropiumeuropaeum is a plant of the #boraginaceae family, a #ruderal species typical of environments heavily disturbed by human activity. It is native to #europe, #asia, and northern #africa, but has become widely naturalized in other regions such as #australia and #northamerica. 🧪

Echium russicum Roem. & Schult.
Boraginaceae
Arasbaran, Iran
June 2025
Elevation 1800m
#echium #Boraginaceae #botany #ecology

#Phaceliahastata is a species of flowering plant in the #borage family, #Boraginaceae. Its common names include #silverleaf #scorpionweed, #silverleafphacelia, and #white-leafphacelia. #wildflower #badgercreekwilderness #oregon

Rindera lanata (Lam.) Bunge
Boraginaceae
Padena, Semirom, Isfahan, Iran
April 2025
Elevation: 2500m
#botany #boraginaceae #wildflowers #medicinalplants #conservation #ecology

3-14-25
Texas baby blue eyes
(Nemophila phacelioides)
Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, TX

#tx #texas #nature #nikon #nikond7500 #photography #naturephotography #botany #petals #Nemophila #Boraginaceae #Boraginales #Asterids #Wildlife #wildlifephotography #flowers #plants

#Trichodesma zeylanicum #Boraginaceae, is the only WA species with the genus along with 3 subspecies! I Love the flowers but it’s really not one to touch with those irritating hairs! They get to 2m tall and are very common and widespread across WA!

Image of a tiny plant (Pectocarya recurvata) growing with multiple fruits and a flower. The photographer's fingers are included for scale to illustrate that the plant is only about two inches tall.

First chromosome-scale reference #GenomeAssembly for Pectocarya recurvata, a #SonoranDesert annual & important eco-evolutionary model

In #AppsPlantSci by @poppybot.bsky.social, Pelosi, Venable & Dlugosch

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uofa-eeb.bsky.social #Boraginaceae #botany

True Forget-me-not Myosotis scorpioides Flathead Waterfowl Production Area Bigfork, MT- May 18th, 2025 #wildflowers #nature #photography #nonnativespecies #flatheadwaterfowlproduction #bigforkmt #flatheadmt #montana #Plantae #Anthophyta #Dicotyledoneae #Lamiales #Boraginaceae #Myosotis #scorpioides

True Forget-me-not
Myosotis scorpioides
Flathead Waterfowl Production Area
Bigfork, MT- May 18th, 2025
#wildflowers #nature #photography #nonnativespecies
#flatheadwaterfowlproduction #bigforkmt #flatheadmt #montana
#Plantae #Anthophyta #Dicotyledoneae #Lamiales #Boraginaceae #Myosotis #scorpioides

Incredibly tiny Greeneocharis circumscissa and a good reminder why having a way to scale your tiny plants is important. Seen today near Frenchman Coulee, WA. #Cryptantha #Boraginaceae #wildflowers #TinyFlowers

Pride of Madeira plant in the school garden. The blooms are popping! So many insects at the buffet!
#Echium #Flowers
#Boraginaceae

Heliotropium tenuifolium
Boraginaceae
25k west of Barkly Homestead Roadhouse,
Northern Territory, Australia

#HeliotropiumpTenuifolium #Boraginaceae #BarklyTablelands #NorthernTerritory #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

Heliotropium pulvinum
Boraginaceae
East of Barkly Homestead,
Northern Territory, Australia
#HeliotropiumpPlvinum #Boraginaceae #BarklyTablelands #NorthernTerritory #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

A painting of bluebell, a wildflower

Phacelia campanularia
#bluebell #desertbells #boraginaceae #artshare
#watercolor #fineart #floralart #flowers #traditionalart #painting #gallery #artist #artcommunity #pientre #boho #artistonbluesky

Evergreen plant with blue flowers flowering in dead leaves.

Evergreen plant with blue flowers flowering in dead leaves.

#Pentaglottis sempervirens #Boraginaceae in flower spotted on the way to @nhm-london.bsky.social

#Greenalkanet #Pentaglottis sempervirens #wildflower #sciart #botanicalillustration in #watercolor

This is Green alkanet Pentaglottis sempervirens, probably my favourite wild flower. I got to paint this for a new chart called "Discover Wildflowers", due to be published by Field Studies Council later this year.

#botanicalillustration #pentaglottis #boraginaceae #botanicalart #sciart

Heliotropium pulvinum
Boraginaceae
60K east of Barkly Homestead,
Northern Territory, Australia
October 2023
#HeliotropiumPulvinum #Boraginaceae #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #BarklyHighway

Trichodesma zeylanicum
Boraginaceae
Hervey Range Road,
North Queensland, Australia
Sept 2023
#Trichodesma #Boraginaceae #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #CamelBush #RoughBluebell

Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146[3] to 154 genera with a worldwide distribution.[4]

#Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146[3] to 154 genera with a worldwide distribution.[4]

Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146[3] to 154 genera with a worldwide distribution.[4]

#Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146[3] to 154 genera with a worldwide distribution.[4]

Close-up photo of a scorpioid cyme with yellow, 5-lobed, rotate flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

#Heliotropiaceae include Heliotropium + 3 other genera. They are vegetatively like #Boraginaceae with similar flowers, but the style is terminal and the stigmatic head is enlarged. This is Heliotropium polyphyllum. #Boraginales #botany 🌱🧪🌾