Anchusa officinalis L.

BORAGINACEAE

- Borage family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Anchusa officinalis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 133 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common bugloss

English name: alkanet

English name: bugloss

Spanish name: buglosa

French name: buglosse officinale

Italian name: Buglossa comune

German name: gewöhnliche Ochsenzunge

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial, Perennial

Synonyms:
= Anchusa procera Besser ex Link

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Anchusa
Species:

Page counter: 1808 ( AVG: 223.17 / 292.42 )

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Anchusa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Camerino, Orto Botanico., MC, Marche, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Anchusa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Anchusa officinalis
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Anchusa officinalis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Anchusa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Anchusa officinalis
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Anchusa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Mesola, argine del Po di Goro tra Mesola e Monticelli. , FE, Emilia Romagna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Anchusa officinalis
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Anchusa officinalis
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Anchusa officinalis
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Anchusa officinalis
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Anchusa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Anchusa officinalis
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Anchusa officinalis
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Anchusa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Anchusa officinalis
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Anchusa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Anchusa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Anchusa officinalis
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CO, CT, ID, IL, MA, ME, MI, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, WA, WI), CAN (BC, ON)

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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Anchusa procera Besser ex Link [179]
2) Anchusa sempervirens L. [268]
3) Ancistrocactus scheeri (Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose [140]
4) Ancistrocactus uncinatus (Galeotti) L.D. Benson var. wrightii (Engelm.) L.D. Benson [96]
5) Andrachne arida (Warnock & M.C. Johnst.) G.L. Webster [141]
6) Andreaea angustata Lindb. ex Limpr. [112]
7) Andreaea hartmanii Thed. [105]
8) Andreaea parvifolia Müll. Hal. [144]
9) Andreaea rupestris Hedw. ssp. papillosa (Lindb.) C.E.O. Jensen [143]
10) Andromeda polifolia L. ssp. glaucophylla (Link) Hultén [99]

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