FAMILIES OF PLANTS 
105 
2. Leaves or some of them long-petioled, lance-shapecl to oblong, pale and silky 
with soft, whitish hairs. Flowers pale blue or whitish. Phacelia leuco- 
phylla. 
3. Plants annual or biennial. Flowers pale blue or whitish or purple; in a short 
cluster. Stamens not very long. Phacelia franklinii. 
3. Plants perennial. Flowers blue-violet; in a long spikelike cluster. Stamens 
very long. Phacelia sericea , 
Phacelia alpina and P. lyallii have also been reported in the park. 
BORAGE FAMILY (BORAGINACEAE) 
The flowers of this family can be recognized by the five-lobed 
calyx, regular, five-lobed corolla, five stamens attached to the corolla- 
tube, and the deeply four dobed ovary with a single style. The mem¬ 
bers of the family are mostly rough-hairy herbs with alternate leaves. 
The flowers are often on one¬ 
sided branches though not 
Perhaps the forget-me-not is the 
best known member of the family. 
1. Fruitsburlike. Stickseed {Lappula) 
(p. 105) 
1. Fruits smooth, not burlike. 2. 
2. Leaves opposite. Allocarya scopu- 
lorum _ ,(p. 105) 
2. Leaves alternate. 3. 
3. Flowers very small, white. Cryptan- 
the __________ (p. 106) 
3. Flowers yellow. Gromwell ( Litho - 
spermum ) _____(p. 107) 
3. Flowers blue. 4. 
4. Flowers pendant, bell-shaped. Blue¬ 
bells ( Mertensia )_ (p. 106) 
4. Flowers not pendant. Plants low. 
Alpine forget-me-not ( Myosotis 
alpestris) ___ _(p. 106) 
Stickseed (Lappula) .-—The flow¬ 
ers resemble those of forget-me- 
not, but the fruits are burlike. 
Stickseed is found at all altitudes 
and different species vary from a 
few inches to three feet high. The 
following eight species, some of 
them not very easily distinguished, 
have been found in the park. Some 
of them are very common. Lappula ainericana , Z. caerulescens , 
Z. diffusa , Z. erecta , Z. ftorihunda , Z. leptophylla , Z. occidentalism 
Figuke 82 . 
Stickseed. Blue. Copy¬ 
right, J. E. Haynes. 
Z. subdecumbens. 
Allocarya scopulorum is a small, annual plant with opposite, linear 
leaves and small white flowers which are yellow in the throat of the 
