family Boraginaceae

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family Boraginaceae - a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit borage family, Boraginaceae plant family - a family of plants order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales Borago, genus Borago - perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region Amsinckia, genus Amsinckia - rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks genus Anchusa - rough and hairy Old World herbs Cordia, genus Cordia - tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae Cynoglossum, genus Cynoglossum - a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae Echium, genus Echium - a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula - stickweed; beggar's lice genus Lithospermum, Lithospermum - annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia genus Mertensia, Mertensia - a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels genus Myosotis, Myosotis - forget-me-nots; scorpion grass genus Onosmodium, Onosmodium - a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae genus Symphytum, Symphytum - comfrey