Observations in the Family: Boraginaceae English Name: Borages
Child members
By: Anri Marais
Observed on: 23rd May 2013
Added to iSpot: 24th May 2013
Likely ID: Cape Forget-Me-Not (Anchusa capensis )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 2
Observed on: 17th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 21st May 2013
Likely ID: Cape Forget-Me-Not (Anchusa capensis )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Softly or roughly hairy annual to 1 m. Leaves oblanceolate. Flowers in helicoid cymes lengthening in fruit, blue or dark blue. Nutlets ovoid. Called the habitat wetlands. It was growing close to a river in disturbed ground
Location: R364, West Coast DC
Lat/Lng: -32.3064, 19.0085
Eastern side of valley bottom. Sandy soil derived from sandstone. Locality precision +- 2 km.
Close Observed on: 4th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 17th May 2013
Likely ID: Lobostemon
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Rounded shrub, c. 1 m tall.
Observed on: 27th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 15th May 2013
Likely ID: Lobostemon curvifolius
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Shrub about 0.5m tall with silver-haired leaves, recurved at tips. Hairy style.
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 29th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 11th May 2013
Likely ID: Cynoglossum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 21st April 2013
Added to iSpot: 22nd April 2013
Likely ID: Lobostemon
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 31st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 18th April 2013
Likely ID: Echium plantagineum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 3
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 17th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 17th April 2013
Likely ID: Caracas Wigandia (Wigandia urens var. caracasana )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 2
Description: A revisit of this alien posted before, but no flowers - need to get the timing right.
Observed on: 12th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 13th April 2013
Likely ID: Acht-Dag-Geneesbos (Lobostemon fruticosus )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 1
Description: Plants about 1m tall. Flowers hairy on outside.
Observed on: 22nd March 2013
Added to iSpot: 7th April 2013
Likely ID: Wellstedia dinteri
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
By: Ryan van Huyssteen
Observed on: 1st April 2013
Added to iSpot: 3rd April 2013
Likely ID: Heliotropium
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 19th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 23rd March 2013
Likely ID: agtdaegeneesbossie (Lobostemon glaucophyllus )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 30th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 18th March 2013
Likely ID: Codon royenii
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Spiny shrub c. 1 m tall.
Observed on: 30th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 18th March 2013
Likely ID: Codon royenii
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Spiny shrub c. 1 m tall.
Observed on: 27th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 13th March 2013
Likely ID: Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis afropalustris )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description:
Sani Pass Flower Weekend
Mass of pretty small blue flowers on a sprawling low shrub. Leaves are largish and stalks are mildly hairy.
Also seen at Golden Gate National Park.
Observed on: 12th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 12th March 2013
Likely ID: Lobostemon
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 2
Observed on: 7th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th March 2013
Likely ID: Echiostachys spicatus
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 9th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th March 2013
Likely ID: Bottlebrush (Echiostachys incanus )
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Plant about 25 cm high.
Observed on: 19th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 9th March 2013
Likely ID: Lobostemon
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 4
Observed on: 19th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 9th March 2013
Likely ID: Bloudisseldoring (Echium plantagineum )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 12th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 3rd March 2013
Likely ID: Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis afropalustris )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
Description: Pretty small (7mm) blue flowers with long throat. Plant was a single stem (cf Pooley), flowers on terminal panicle. Buds appearing on stem. Stalk and lance like alternate leaves hairy. Probably about 1 meter high. Found close to the stream.
Illustrated in Gibson (Inland) as M. semiamplexicaulis which aptly describes leaf attachment.
Observed on: 2nd March 2013
Added to iSpot: 2nd March 2013
Likely ID: Comfrey (Symphytum officinale )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: 600mm tall shrub
Observed on: 24th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 28th February 2013
Likely ID: Ehretia obtusifolia
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Untidy shrub. 2m
Observed on: 24th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 28th February 2013
Likely ID: Heliotropium ciliatum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
Description: Small herb up to about 300mm.
Leaves ovate to lanceolate.
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 1st December 2012
Added to iSpot: 28th February 2013
Likely ID: Echium plantagineum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 18th December 2011
Added to iSpot: 24th February 2013
Likely ID: Echium plantagineum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 2
Description: Echium in the background, but my query is the white plant in the foreground. Looks similar to Echium but I am not aware of a white form. Please help. Cynoglossum ??
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 21st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th February 2013
Likely ID: Echium plantagineum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 1
Observed on: 18th September 2007
Added to iSpot: 17th February 2013
Likely ID: Echiostachys incanus
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 17th April 2011
Added to iSpot: 14th February 2013
Likely ID: Heliotropium
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
By: tony rebelo
Location: Devils Peak paddocks
Lat/Lng: -33.94720270002, 18.466285979998
Devils Peak section Table Mountain Nationanl Park
Close Observed on: 18th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 7th February 2013
Likely ID: Echium plantagineum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
By: Doline
Observed on: 2nd February 2013
Added to iSpot: 4th February 2013
Likely ID: Heliotropium
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Tiny little 'string' flowers, on a herb like plant. Appears in masses in the Limpopo valey.
Observed on: 20th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 27th January 2013
Likely ID: Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis graminifolia )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Plant about 40cm tall.
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th January 2013
Likely ID: Echium plantagineum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 1
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 17th January 2013
Likely ID: Lobostemon glaucophyllus
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 13th December 2011
Added to iSpot: 9th January 2013
Likely ID: Bloudissel (Echium )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 2
Description: Hairy green leaves with pale blue flower. near homestead and garden escape cannot be ruled out. Only specimen seen in this area
Observed on: 15th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th January 2013
Likely ID: Blue Heliotrope (Heliotropium amplexicaule )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Low growing herb. Native of South America.
Observed on: 30th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th January 2013
Likely ID: Blue Heliotrope (Heliotropium amplexicaule )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Low growing herb with protrate stems.
A naturalized plant from South America.
Observed on: 29th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 25th December 2012
Likely ID: Lobostemon paniculatus
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 26th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 23rd December 2012
Likely ID: Lobostemon
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Location: Glen
Lat/Lng: -28.90598, 26.39737
Close Observed on: 16th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 22nd December 2012
Likely ID: Heliotropium ciliatum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Plant about 30cm tall.
By: CarinVG
Observed on: 3rd August 2008
Added to iSpot: 19th December 2012
Likely ID: Soetdoringbos (Codon royenii )
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 5
Comments: 2
Observed on: 15th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 15th December 2012
Likely ID: Cordia caffra
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 29th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th December 2012
Likely ID: Cape Forget-Me-Not (Anchusa capensis )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Sprawling shrub with branches about 1m long.
Observed on: 2nd December 2012
Added to iSpot: 2nd December 2012
Likely ID: Patterson's curse (Echium plantagineum )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Observed on: 30th April 2011
Added to iSpot: 2nd December 2012
Likely ID: Trichodesma africanum
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 12th April 2011
Added to iSpot: 30th November 2012
Likely ID: Soetdoringbos (Codon royenii )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Observed on: 16th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 25th November 2012
Likely ID: Lobostemon
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Renoster/fynbos mix.
Observed on: 16th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 25th November 2012
Likely ID: Agtdaegeneesbos (Lobostemon argenteus )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Renosterveld/fynbos mix.
Observed on: 25th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 25th November 2012
Likely ID: Lithospermum
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Tiny tiny flowers
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 9th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th November 2012
Likely ID: Soetdoringbos (Codon royenii )
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
