C. procumbens has leaves that are arranged alternately along the stem, oval to almost round, about 2.5 cm long, covered with dense hairs and toothed to almost lobed margins.
Flowers solitary, small, white, mostly hidden between the leaves. Fruit ovoid, 4-5 mm in diameter, lobed 4, beak with irregular protrusions.
Creeping coldenia grows in floodplains and riverbanks that are seasonally inundated, mostly on sandy or silty soil at elevations up to 750 meters.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Cordioideae
Genus: Coldenia
Species: Coldenia procumbens
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