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27th April 2006, Crag Vale, Mytholmroyd, West Yorks. | Photo: © RWD |
Never far from a garden, it is a popular garden plant. |
8th April 2010, Rowarth, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Pin flowers. It escapes into woods, as here, or roadside verges and hedge-banks. To 30cm tall and un-branched. Leaves few but alternate up the stem. |
16th March 2007, Little Longstone, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
Pin flowers. Flowers have 5 petals and start off reddish-pink, but may change through mauve to blue. |
Lost in the mists of time, Somewhere. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves spotted a pale green. Flowers flare suddenly from a dark purple-brown sepal tube. |
8th April 2010, Rowarth, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
A plant might have three flower stalks, each bearing half-a-dozen drooping flowers. Stems and sepal tubes have rough whitish hairs of various lengths. |
27th March 2010, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Stem is square. Flowers splay out like they do from Cowslip, avoiding one side or another. |
8th April 2010, Rowarth, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Pin flowers. The petals have faint 'water-marks' in them. Nominally with 5 petals, this blue example has six. |
8th April 2010, Rowarth, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Pin flowers. Un-opened flowers are almost red rather than pink, similar in shape and colour to those of many Comfreys. Sepal teeth equilateral triangular. |
8th April 2010, Rowarth, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Basal leaves have long stalks. All leaves have short greyish hairs and pale-green spots, larger in the middle than nearer the edges. |
Similar to : Narrow-Leaved Lungwort, but that has much longer leaves which are also narrow and elliptical. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : It is a perennial with grey-downy hairs such as to make it appear a bit dirty, but it may well be. You are much more likely to find this growing in or near a garden that in the wild, although it does indeed escape. It is Heterostylous, where the flowers, although bisexual, come in two types, thrum and pin. The pin form has a long style and short stamens, the thrum form is the reverse of that.
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Borage Family [Boraginaceae] |