Rough -hairy entire-leaved herbs with perfect, usually regular flowers, with 5-lobed calyx and corolla. Fruitusually of 4 nutlets.
Genera found in Manitoba:
Amsinckia Allocarya Asperugo Borago Cynoglossum Echium Hackelia Heliotropium Lappula Lithospermum Lycopsis Mertensia Myosotis Onosmodium Plagiobothrys Symphytum