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Boraginaceae (Borages and Forget-Me-Nots) 12 images Created 5 Jun 2013

A collection of wild native North American wildflowers photographed in their natural environment belonging to the borage and forget-me-not family: Boraginaceae.
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  • Also known as the tarweed fiddleneck, the bugloss fiddleneck (Amsinckia lycopsoides) is a striking member of the borage family and is primarily found in the Western United States and Canada, but can be found scattered throughout most of the USA except for the Southeast. These were found growing in profusion in sagebrush country, near Whiskey Dick Mountain in rural Kittitas County in central Washington State.
    Bugloss Fiddleneck
  • The sweet-scented heliotrope looked like a mini-morning glory to me at first glance, but a closer look showed this wonderfully scented member of the borage family is also the largest of America's native heliotropes. Like many desert wildflowers, the sweet-scented heliotrope opens in the evening and can be found in all of the southwestern states as well as Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. This one was found in the early evening just after opening up in Utah's Moab Desert.
    Sweet-Scented Heliotrope
  • This non-native, naturalized beautiful member of the borage family can be near water throughout most of the states and provinces of North America. These blue forget-me-nots were photographed in Central Montana.
    True Forget-Me-Not
  • One of the numerous species of catseyes found in the United States, the thicksepal catseye is a hardy and prickly native wildflower found in the arid regions of the American Southwest and is a great source of nectar for many of the insects . This one photographed in the Pawnee National Grasslands of Northeastern Colorado.
    Thicksepal Catseye
  • Also known as the tarweed fiddleneck, the bugloss fiddleneck (Amsinckia lycopsoides) is a striking member of the borage family and is primarily found in the Western United States and Canada, but can be found scattered throughout most of the USA except for the Southeast. These were found growing in profusion in sagebrush country, near Whiskey Dick Mountain in rural Kittitas County in central Washington State.
    Bugloss Fiddleneck
  • Desert bluebells growing along Highway 86 in southern Arizona in Pima County. These tough and beautifully compact wildflowers bloom in the early springtime in the harshest of desert environments soon after the spring rains begin.
    Desert Bluebells
  • Fiddlenecks growing in near the southern tip of Nevada in the Valley of Fire State Park. These are just the buds, before the small bright yellow flowers emerge, but I liked the way they looked enough to take this shot.
    Checker Fiddleneck
  • These very small and extremely vibrant blue wildflowers are a member of the borage family. Also known as scorpionweed, I photographed these beauties in an arroyo I wandered into in Southern California in the Mojave Desert.
    Desert Bluebells
  • Prickly sharp, the miner's candle is a native plains wildflower that grows on open gravelly plains and mountain foothills, like this one found in Central Wyoming on a chilly summer day.
    Miner's Candle
  • Skyflowers found growing in standing water in CREW Marsh Hiking Trails in Collier County, Florida.
    Skyflowers
  • Found throughout many parts of the Arizona and California, I kept running into this beautiful and often overlooked wildflower in the driest parts of the Sonoran Desert in arroyos and roadsides. This one was found outside of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
    Notch-Leaf Scorpion-Weed
  • Also known as the tarweed fiddleneck, the bugloss fiddleneck (Amsinckia lycopsoides) is a striking member of the borage family and is primarily found in the Western United States and Canada, but can be found scattered throughout most of the USA except for the Southeast. These were found growing in profusion in sagebrush country, near Whiskey Dick Mountain in rural Kittitas County in central Washington State.
    Bugloss Fiddleneck