Vascular Plants of North Carolina
Account for Corn-gromwell - Buglossoides arvensis   (L.) I.M. Johnston
Members of Boraginaceae:
Only member of Buglossoides in NC.
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Author(L.) I.M. Johnston
DistributionMostly in the Mountains and Piedmont; sparse in the Coastal Plain. First collected in 1897 as a weed at the Biltmore Estate in Buncombe County; then in 1925 in Greensboro, Guilford County; then in 1935 at the archery range at Flora MacDonald Academy, Scotland County.

Native of Eurasia; in N.A. most of the U.S. and southern Canada.
AbundanceInfrequent to fairly common in the Mountains and Piedmont; rare to uncommon in the Coastal Plain, mainly in the northern third of the province. There are only a handful of collections post-2000, but this is likely "collection apathy".
HabitatDry to mesic soil of roadsides, fields, barnyards, cropfields, campus weed, archery range, waste areas.
PhenologyFlowering and fruiting March-June.
IdentificationCorn Gromwell is a pubescent plant 1-2 feet tall with alternate, narrow leaves, and mainly an unbranched stem. The leaves are rough-hairy. The small white flowers are solitary in the axils of upper leaves. The fruits are 3 mm long, brown, deeply wrinkled and pitted.
Taxonomic CommentsA synonym is Lithospermum arvense.

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