Onosma

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Onosma

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Onosma

Onosma is a genus of plants that grow biennially or perennially. The group consists of about 80 species that grow in the Mediterranean and West Asia. All of the species grow in dry or moist and sunny habitats.[1] The various species are popualar as rock garden plants.[2]

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  1. ^ Genus: Onosma. (URL accessed July 7, 2006).
  2. ^ Hammerton, John Alexander (1920). Harmsworth's Household Encyclopedia. Harmsworth Encyclopedias.
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