Amsinckia lycopsoides

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Amsinckia lycopsoides is a species of flowering plant, known by the common name tarweed fiddleneck or bugloss fiddleneck, in the family Boraginaceae.[1][2] It is one of the more common species of fiddleneck. It is native to much of western North America from California to British Columbia. It can be found in a wide variety of areas.

Description

Amsinckia lycopsoides is a bristly annual herb similar in appearance to other fiddlenecks. Its coiled inflorescence contains yellow flowers about a centimeter long and nearly the same in width, with a five-lobed corolla closed at the mouth by the bulges in the lobes. Flowers bloom April to July.[3]

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Illustration of Amsinckia lycopsoides

Introduced species

It is an introduced species far beyond the Pacific region, to Alaska, Texas, and New England. In Australia, the species has become a widespread weed of pasture lands.[4]

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