Lithospermum incisum

Common names: Fringed puccon, Yellow gromwell

Family: Boranginaceae   Forget-me-not family

Size: up to 30 cm tall.
Description: Upright, hairy

Flowers:

• Tubular shaped flowers in a raceme, to 4 cm long tube
• Corolla bright yellow to 1.5 cm wide mostly sterile
• 5  triangular sepals with irregular fringed lobes
• small  leafy stack at base

Leaves:

• alternate
• deciduous
• simple
• linear oblong or oblanceolate
• 2-6 cm long
• stalkless

Stem:

• erect
• unbranched

Fruit:

• egg-shaped nutlet

More information:

'Litho' means stone

spermum means seed

Incisum means deeply cut, describes the fringed edges of the petals

Edible parts:

leaves

root (to make tea)

Medicinal uses:

root chewed for colds

powered leaves  rubbed on body for paralyzed limbs

tea for stomach aches and kidney problems

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