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Cynoglossum cheirifolium
Also called Borage, Borages And Forget Me Nots, Forget Me Not Family, Manjack Family, Waterleaf
Cynoglossum cheirifolium is a biennial herb from the Mediterranean, a member of the borage family (Boraginaceae). Grown for its soft, silvery foliage and blue flowers in dry, sunny, well-drained spots.
Cynoglossum cheirifolium is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Boraginaceae. It is an herbaceous biennial native to the western and central Mediterranean Basin, including Portugal, Spain, France, the Italian Peninsula, Sardinia, Sicily, and Greece in southern Europe, and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya in North Africa .
Two subspecies are accepted:
Chinese hound's tongue · Australian Hound's Tongue · Blue Hound's Tongue · Green Hound's Tongue · Borage Family · Gypsyflower · Cynoglossum torvum · Ceylon Hound's Tongue · Hound's tongue
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cynoglossum cheirifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
