This perennial can be found in the grasslands and warmer open spaces in late spring. From a long taproot, it grows 20-50 cm tall and forms pale yellow tubular flowers. Small hard nutlets form in the summer after the blooms fade. It is called stoneseed is some places.

First Nations people used the roots for medicine (natural estrogens in the plant inhibit ovulation), for (red) dyes, and the nutlets as beads.

Lithospermum ruderale is sometimes called puccoon and is a member of the borage family.

(lemonweed found in the open areas on the way to Scuitto Lake)