Amsinckia menziesii is a species of plant in the family Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family. It has a terminal flowering whorl somewhat shaped like the head of a violin or fiddle, hence the name fiddleneck. The flowers are yellow-orange, orange, or dark yellow.
Amsinckia menziesii 是紫草科、琉璃苣或勿忘我科的一種植物。它有一個頂生的花輪，形狀有點像小提琴或小提琴的琴頭，因此名為小提琴頸(fiddleneck)。花是黃橙色、橙色或深黃色。
Photo Date: 2023.03.07 Location: Santa Fe Dam, California
Notes 筆記
- Amsinckia menziesii is a species of plant in the family Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family. It is distributed from Alaska and Canada through the Western United States to Mexico.
- It has a terminal flowering whorl somewhat shaped like the head of a violin or fiddle, hence the name fiddleneck. The flowers are yellow-orange, orange, or dark yellow.
- In Australia, the species has become a common weed of cultivated areas in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. In the British Isles, it is an introduced species naturalised particularly in the east of the country and recorded in the wild since 1910.
- Its seeds, while inedible to humans due to their high pyrrolizidine alkaloid content, are the favorite food of Lawrence's goldfinch during that Californian bird's nesting season of spring and early summer.
- Amsinckia menziesii 是紫草科、琉璃苣或勿忘我科的一種植物。它分佈於從阿拉斯加和加拿大經美國西部到墨西哥。
- 它有一個頂生的花輪，形狀有點像小提琴或小提琴的琴頭，因此名為小提琴頸(fiddleneck)。花是黃橙色、橙色或深黃色。
- 在澳大利亞，它已成為新南威爾士州、維多利亞州和昆士蘭州種植區常見的雜草。在不列顛群島，它是一種引進物種，特別是在東部移植，並自1910年以來在野外有記錄。
- 它的種子雖然吡咯裏西啶生物鹼含量高而不能被人類食用，但在加州春季和初夏鳥類築巢季節，它是勞倫斯金翅雀最喜歡的食物。
References 參考資料
- Wikipedia: Amsinckia menziesii
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