Borago officinalis L.

BORAGINACEAE

- Borage family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Borago officinalis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 137 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common borage

English name: beebread

English name: beeplant

Spanish name: borraja

French name: bourrache

Italian name: Borragine comune

German name: Gurkenkraut

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

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TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 2145 ( AVG: 220.87 / 219.588 )

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Borago officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Firenze, lungo le mura presso la chiesa di San Miniato., FI, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Borago officinalis

Borago officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Calatafini, località Segesta, lungo la strada che conduce all'area archeologica., TP, Sicilia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Borago officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Campus Universitario, TS, Friuli-Venezia Giulia , Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Borago 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.

Borago officinalis
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Borago officinalis

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Borago officinalis

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Borago officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Valledoria, nei pressi della località La Muddizza, SS, Sardegna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Alfonso La Rosa

Borago 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'.

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

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

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

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

Borago 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".

Borago 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".

Borago officinalis
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CA, CT, DC, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Borago officinalis L.
Map for Borago officinalis L.
(*) 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) Borbonia pinifolia Marloth [186]
2) Borreria brachysepala Urb. [190]
3) Borreria densiflora DC. [181]
4) Borreria ocymoides auct. non (Burm. f.) DC. [166]
5) Borya distichophylla Nutt. [167]
6) Boswellia carteri Birdw. [192]
7) Bothriochloa alta (Hitchc.) Henr. [296]
8) Bothriochloa glabra (Roxb.) A. Camus [170]
9) Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng var. songarica (Rupr. ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Celarier & Harlan [240]
10) Botrychium ascendens W.H. Wagner [301]

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