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El Paso County Wildflower Project - Manyflowered Gromwell

Manyflowered Gromwell

Bloom Season: May - July

Habitat: You can find it in dry to moderately moist grasslands, mesas, canyon bottoms, and open pine woodlands. It thrives in full sun and requires well-draining, moderately fertile, or rocky soils.

Photography Notes: Susceptible to a breeze.

Credits: Hiking Bob, 26 June

Lithospermum incisum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family.[2][3] It is known by several common names, including fringed gromwell, fringed puccoon,[4] narrowleaf stoneseed, narrowleaf puccoon, and plains stoneseed.[additional citation(s) needed]

It is a hairy perennial herb growing from a narrow brown to black taproot and woody caudex.[5] It produces a cluster of stems up to about 30 centimetres (12 in) long. The stems are lined with narrow, pointed leaves up to 6.5 cm (2+1⁄2 in) long.[4]

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Manyflowered Gromwell (native) is one of many wildflowers featured in the El Paso CO Wildflower Project, a community-built field guide documenting the wildflowers of El Paso County, Colorado.