Species: Lungwort (Pulmonaria sp.)
Family: Borages (BORAGINACEAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: One Sighting
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Borages (BORAGINACEAE)
The plants in the Borage family are noted for their being edged with coarse hairs. The flowers often start pink and turn blue, and are usually in one-sided stalked spikes, which at first are tightly coiled.
C. Lungwort (Pulmonaria sp.)
The lungwort in the cemetery is a cultivar, not one of our native lungworts, as revealed by its leaf shape. Pulmonaria species can cause severe skin irritation.
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Lungwort
The lungwort in the cemetery is a cultivar, not one of our native lungworts, as revealed by its leaf shape. Pulmonaria species can cause severe skin irritation.
Lungwort
The pink and purple flowers of the cultivated lungwort make the plant distinctive.
Lungwort
Note the coarse hairs on the edges of the leaves of this lungwort specimen, typical of plants in the Borage family.
