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Cynoglossum (Boraginaceae) 3:489
Tasmania has two native species of Houndstongue (Cynoglossum) - the common C suaveolens and the rare C. australe. Both are small-medium sized, more-or-less erect herbs of dry woodlands. They are superficially similar to Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis) but differ in that the mericarps ("seeds") are bristly. C. australe has blue flowers and C. suaveolens has white-cream-yellow ones (in Tasmanian specimens).
 
 

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