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Oreocarya
| Oreocarya | |
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| Basin yellow catseye (Oreocarya confertiflora) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Genus: | Oreocarya Greene |
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Oreocarya (perennial cat's-eye) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. There are about 63 species and its native range extends from western and central Canada, through western United States to north Mexico.[1] It is part of subtribe of Amsinckiinae.[2]
It was once thought to be a either a subgenus or synonym of Cryptantha Lehm. ex G. Don,[2][3] as they both had plenty of tiny flowers, hairy leaves, and persisting dried flower stems.[4]
Botanist William Alfred Weber later noted that the 2 genera were different in form as Oreocarya was a "biennial or perennial from rosettes of basal leaves; flowers more than 5 mm in diameter, often distinctly long-tubular with prominent yellow eye", while Cryptantha was an "annual without rosettes of basal leaves; flowers minute, less than 5 mm diameter, short-tubed with inconspicuous eye".[4]
- ^ "Oreocarya Greene | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Genus: Oreocarya Greene". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
- ^ Hong Qian and K. Klinka Plants of British Columbia: Scientific and Common Names of Vascular Plants ... (1998), p. 31, at Google Books
- ^ a b "Cryptanthas and Oreocaryas". Retrieved 4 July 2022.
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