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. 1970 Jul;66(3):917–919. doi: 10.1073/pnas.66.3.917

A Hummingbird-Pollinated Species of Boraginaceae in the Arizona Flora

Verne Grant 1, Karen A Grant 1
PMCID: PMC283138  PMID: 16578708

Abstract

Marcomeria viridiflora (Boraginaceae) is pollinated by broad-tailed and rufous hummingbirds in the White Mountains of Arizona. This is the first hummingbird-pollinated member of the family Boraginaceae to be recorded in western North America. It provides one more example of a predominantly beepollinated plant group that has given rise to one or a few exceptional species of hummingbird flowers in western North America.

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