Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Bouchetia erecta
Bouchetia erecta DC.
Erect Bouchetia, Painted-tongue, Paintedtongue, Painted Tongue
Solanaceae (Potato Family)
USDA Symbol: BOER3USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Bouchetia erecta
Erect Bouchetia
Solonaceae
Location: 100 m S.E. of New Iron Bridge on S Oakwell Farms Pky & 10 m S.W. of path, Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Half shade of Quercus. Dry, alkaline soil. A few plants. Uncommon.
Description: Much branched perennial from taproot, 26 cm tall, appressed puberulent. Leaves alt; lower petioled to 6 mm; upper narrowing sharply/sessile; all lanceolate, to 10 x 30 mm; entire, rounded to acute apically. Flowers solitary, terminal, white, tubular, 12 mm long exceeding calyx by 2x. Stamens-5, adnate to corolla, anthers yellow; stigma sticky green.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 6, 1994
Specimen number: 592
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0879
Accession Date: Aug 23, 1994
Accession Number: 66
Annotations: SCXRB (In flower)