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Anchusa azurea 'Dropmore'
Italian Bugloss, Bugloss
Prized for their blue flowers, these annuals, biennials and perennials usually live only two to three years. Plants have coarse, hairy leaves, and all need full sun.

 


Anchusa barrelieri, Barrelier's bugloss or false alkanet,[3] is a species of plant in the Boraginaceae plant family. It is sometimes used as an ornamental plant.[4]
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Anchusa tinctoria
Nombres relacionados: Alkana farbiarska (eslovaco), Alkanet (inglés), Alkanna tinctoria (sinónimo), Ancusa de tintes (castellano), Belchoría (vasco), Bolen roig (catalán), Boraginaceae (familia), Lithospermum tinctorium (sinónimo), ...

Anchusa azurea
also known as Anchusa italica - Anchusa
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Anchusa azurea 'Loddon Royalist'
Genus: Anchusa
Species: azurea
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Scientific Name
Anchusa capensis
Common Name
Summer forget-me not; Cape forget-me not; Bugloss ...

Italian Bugloss, Alkanet
Scientific Name: Anchusa azurea P. Mill.
Synonym: Anchusa italica
Family: Boraginaceae ...

The name Anchusa is derived from the Greek anchousa=paint, from the use of the root as a dye.

Alkanet (Anchusa)
Stout herbaceous and biennial plants of the Forget-me-not family; some worth growing, amongst the best being A. italica, which is vigorous, 3 to 4 feet high, with beautiful blue blossoms.

Anchusa azurea
Anemone coronaria
Anemone hupehensis & A. Ã- hybrida (Japanese anemones)
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Aquilegia (columbine)
Artichoke, globe and Jerusalem
Aster novae-angliae (Michaelmas daisy) ...

Three Blue Annuals - Anchusa, Oxypetalum, Salvia
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Cut the anchusas, delphiniums and lupins to the ground - immediately they have finished flowering.
Sow seeds of biennials like wallflowers, forget-me-nots and alyssum about the middle of the month for winter bedding - if not already done.

Anchusa myosotidiflora), H W 45 cm, part shade to full sun, Zone 4
'Jack Frost' Siberian bugloss (B. m. 'Jack Frost') H 30 cm, W 45 cm, part shade to full sun, Zone 4
Bath's cheddar pink (Dianthus 'Bath's Pink'), H 20 cm, W 30 cm, full sun, Zone 4 ...

Although thorns and briars pose no problems to them, the fibrous or fuzzy foliage of ferns, ornamental grasses, tarragon and wormwood (Artemesia), lamb's ears (Stachys) and borage-family plants like bugloss (Anchusa), borage, heliotrope, ...

Adam who found it in woodlands north of Tiflis (Tbilisi) during the 1800 Caucasian Expedition of Count Mussin-Puschkin, & was initially assigned to the genus Anchusa.

Besides Myostois, other genera in the Borage family that have species for which the name has been used include Anchusa, Cynoglossum, Eritrichium, and Myosotidium. Also the genus Veronica, in the Figwort family.

Italian bugloss Anchusa azurea
Italian plumeless thistle Carduus pycnocephalus
Italian ryegrass Lolium perenne ssp. multiflorum
Italian stone pine Pinus pinea
Italian woodbine Lonicera caprifolium
itchgrass Rottboellia cochinchinensis ...

und thaur [
ثور
] 'Bulle') und offenbar auf die dicken und rauhen Blätter anspielt. Ein weiterer Name, himhim [
حمحم
], steht nicht nur für Borretsch sondern auch für verwandte Gattungen wie Drachenkopf (Echium ) oder Ochsenzunge (Anchusa ).

Thus in borage it is rotate, tubular in comfrey, funnel-shaped in hounds-tongue, and salvershaped in alkanet (Anchusa); the throat is often closed by scale-like outgrowths from the corolla, forming the so-called corona.

See also: Bugloss, May, Green, Forget-me-Not, Brunnera macrophylla