Mertensia maritima: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Boraginales
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Mertensia
- Species
- Mertensia maritima
- Scientific Name
- Mertensia maritima
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mertensia maritima
Mertensia maritima is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, and is known by the common names oyster leaf in North America, oyster plant in the British Isles, and sea bluebells.
It is restricted to gravelly sea shores, usually within reach of the highest winter tides in the Northern Hemisphere, reaching north to the northern parts of Canada, Greenland and Svalbard.
It is a perennial herb producing a stem approaching 50 centimeters in maximum length. The inflorescence forms a cluster of flowers which are first reddish, and later bright blue.
...Mertensia maritima in languages:
- Bokmål
- østersurt
- Chinese
- 濱紫草
- Czech
- plícněnka přímořská
- Danish
- Hestetunge
- English
- Oysterplant
- English
- Sea Lungwort
- English
- Sea Bluebells
- English
- oysterleaf
- Finnish
- merihalikka
- French
- mertensie maritime
- German
- Austernpflanze
- Russian
- Мертензия морская
- Swedish
- ostronört
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Mertensia arizonica
- Mertensia bakeri
- Mertensia bella
- Mertensia brachycalyx
- Mertensia brachyloba
- Mertensia brevistyla
- Mertensia campanulata
- Mertensia cana
- Mertensia ciliata
- Mertensia coronata
- Mertensia cusickii
- Mertensia cynoglossoides
- Mertensia davurica
- Mertensia eastwoodiae
- Mertensia fendleri
- Mertensia franciscana
- Mertensia grahamii
- Mertensia humilis
- Mertensia kamczatica
- Mertensia lanceolata
- Mertensia lateriflora
- Mertensia lineariloba
- Mertensia longiflora
- Mertensia longipedunculata
- Mertensia macdougalii
- Mertensia maritima
- Mertensia mexicana
- Mertensia meyeriana
- Mertensia nevadensis
- Mertensia nivalis
- Mertensia oblongifolia
- Mertensia oreophila
- Mertensia ovata
- Mertensia pallasii
- Mertensia paniculata
- Mertensia parvifolia
- Mertensia platyphylla
- Mertensia pratensis
- Mertensia pterocarpa
- Mertensia pubescens
- Mertensia rivularis
- Mertensia serrulata
- Mertensia sibirica
- Mertensia simplicissima
- Mertensia sinica
- Mertensia stylosa
- Mertensia subcordata
- Mertensia tarbagataica
- Mertensia tweedyi
- Mertensia umbratilis
- Mertensia virginica
- Mertensia viridis































































































































































