''Romanzoffia tracyi'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names Tracy's mistmaiden and Tracy's romanzoffia. It is native to the coastline of western North America from far northern

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

north to the southern tip of

Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are o ...

,Race Rocks Marine Protected Area Flora
/ref> where it grows among rocks on oceanside bluffs. It is a tufted plant reaching no more than about 12 centimeters tall, its herbage growing from a network of hairy brown

tuber Tubers are a type of enlarged structure used as storage organs for nutrients in some plants. They are used for the plant's perennation (survival of the winter or dry months), to provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing ...

s. The leaves have rounded blades notched into lobes along the edges, borne on petioles which may be several centimeters long. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is short cyme of funnel-shaped flowers each just under a centimeter long. The flower has a yellow-throated white corolla set in a calyx of narrow, pointed

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined b ...

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Jepson Manual TreatmentUSDA Plants ProfileWashington Burke MuseumPhoto gallery
Hydrophylloideae Flora of the West Coast of the United States Flora of the Northwestern United States Flora of British Columbia Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora of Washington (state) Taxa named by Willis Linn Jepson Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Asterid-stub