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
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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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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!
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007) p249
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p130
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p210
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p247
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p137
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