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Common lungwort

Pulmonaria officinalis

Also called Lungwort, Jerusalem Cowslip, Jerusalem Sage, Joseph And Mary, Mary Spilt The Milk, Bloody Butcher, Blue Lungwort

Common lungwort
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Europe
Climate
temperate

About

Pulmonaria officinalis, common names lungwort, common lungwort, Mary's tears or Our Lady's milk drops, is a herbaceous rhizomatous evergreen perennial plant of the genus Pulmonaria, belonging to the family Boraginaceae.

Where it grows

This native species is perhaps the most widespread plant in Europe. It is distributed west in the Ardennes up to the Netherlands, Denmark and southern Sweden. It is missing in Norway and it is only naturalized in the British Isles. It reaches central Russia and the Caucasus and it occurs in the Balkans and in northern to central Italy.

Other Pulmonaria plants

Blue Cowslip · Narrow Leaved Lungwort · Pulmonaria mollis · Unspotted Lungwort · Red Lungwort · Bethlehem lungwort · Lungwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pulmonaria officinalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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