NameThatPlant.net: Cynoglossum officinale

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cynoglossum officinale FAMILY Boraginaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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Read more about Hound's-tongue at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cynoglossum officinale FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cynoglossum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Cynoglossum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-02-001:

Cynoglossum officinale FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cynoglossum officinale

COMMON NAME:
Hound's-tongue, Garden Comfrey

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image of Cynoglossum officinale, Hound's-tongue, Garden Comfrey

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cyof_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cynoglossum officinale FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cynoglossum officinale FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cynoglossum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cynoglossum officinale

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-02-001:
Cynoglossum officinale FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cynoglossum officinale

2655

Forb
Biennial

Habitat: Disturbed areas, roadsides, pastures, calcareous shale barrens, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare south of VA

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish-red, maroon
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed, deeply cleft, calyx
5-lobed funnelform or salverform corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

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