
baby blue eyes, Phacelias, and waterleaves
Hydrophylloideae
Hydrophylloideae is a subfamily of the Boraginaceae family of flowering plants. Their taxonomic position is somewhat uncertain. Traditionally, and under the Cronquist system, they were given family rank under the name Hydrophyllaceae, and treated as part of the order Solanales. More recent systems have recognised their close relationship to the borage family, Boraginaceae, initially by placing Hydrophyllaceae and Boraginaceae together in an order Boraginales, and most recently by demoting Hydrophyllaceae to a subfamily of Boraginaceae. However...
11 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Scorpionweeds
genusPhacelia

Waterleaves
genusHydrophyllum

baby blue eyes and allies
genusNemophila

Pholistoma
genusPholistoma

Eucrypta
genusEucrypta

Emmenanthe
genusEmmenanthe

Aunt Lucies
genusEllisia

Mistmaidens
genusRomanzoffia

Hesperochiron
genusHesperochiron

Draperia
genusDraperia

Tricardia
genusTricardia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 795678.