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False Alkanet

Cynoglottis barrelieri

Also called Barrelier's Bugloss

False Alkanet
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0

Cynoglottis barrelieri is a hardy perennial from southeastern Europe, Crimea and the Levant, grown occasionally as an ornamental. It does best in a sunny or lightly shaded, well-drained spot with average garden soil.

Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water during dry spells until established, then let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, average to poor garden soil; tolerates lime.
Temperature
Hardy to around -15 °C; tolerates cool temperate winters.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Hungary, SE. Europe, Krym
Climate
temperate

About

Cynoglottis barrelieri, Barrelier's bugloss or false alkanet, is a species of flowering plant in the Boraginaceae family. It is a perennial native to southeastern Europe (Italy, the Balkan Peninsula, and Hungary), Crimea, Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria. It is sometimes used as an ornamental plant.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cynoglottis barrelieri 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.

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