Omphalodes Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 118-119

33. Omphalodes Miller 2

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Flowers solitary and axillary or in mostly terminal, bracteate or ebracteate cymes. Calyx lobed to the base, accrescent. Corolla blue or white, subrotate or almost campanulate, with short tube and 5 prominent, saccate invaginations in the throat. Stamens included, inserted at about middle of tube. Style included; stigma capitate. Nutlets depressed-globose, smooth, sometimes hairy, winged, with the wing erect or incurved to form an umbilicus, attached to the receptacle for almost their whole length.

Literature: A. Brand in Engler, Pflanzenreich 78(IV. 252): 96-112 (1921).

1 Flowers solitary, axillary; corolla 3-4 mm 1. scorpioides

1 Flowers in mostly terminal cymes; corolla 5-10 mm

2 Perennial; flowers blue 3 Basal leaves lanceolate 2. nitida 3 Basal leaves ovate 4 Leaves acute; calyx with appressed hairs 3. verna 4 Leaves obtuse; calyx glabrous 4. luciliae

2 Annual; flowers white, rarely blue 5 Wing of nutlets strongly incurved, crenate or dentate 6 Inflorescence ebracteate 5. linifolia 6 Inflorescence bracteate 6. kuzinskyanae

5 Wing of nutlets erect, entire

7 Nutlets hirsute 7. littoralis 7 Nutlets glabrous 8. brassicifolia