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| Scientific Name | Cryptantha minima | USDA PLANTS Symbol |
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| Common Name | Little Catseye, Little Cryptantha | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. |
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| Family | Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not) | SW Colorado Wildflowers Ref. | Click Here |
| Description |
Habitat: Dry soils, slopes, grasslands. Plant: Short annual about 4 inches tall and 8 inches across; few to many spreading, ascending stems with pungent bristles. Leaves: Very bristly leaves clustered at base and alternate on stems; sessile, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, up to 1-1/2 inches long and 1/4-inch wide, becoming smaller upward to become bracts. Inflorescence: Very small white flowers, 1/8-inch across, in dense curled spikes (scorpioide cymes) surrounded by sepals forming a bristly calyx less than 0.1 inch long; blossoms have 5 rounded lobes; leaf-like, bristly bracts below cymes. Cymes open and elongate up to 6 inches long as plant matures. Bloom Period: May to July. References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston. |
BONAP Distribution Map
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Texas Status: Native |
