Lungwort
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Lungwort (Pulmonaria) - These are vigorous and hardy in any soil. Most of them grow well under the shade of trees, and all succeed best in shade.
Lungwort, a member of the Borage tribe, is found in woods and thickets, but is not common, and is by some only regarded as an escape from gardens, where it is cultivated now mostly for the sake of its ornamental leaves, ...
Additional Comments: The Doctrine of Signatures decreed that the lungwort lichens were suitable for chest disorders on the grounds of their pouched, lung-like appearance.
Lungwort
Lungwort information
Lungwort - Sticta pulmonaria (in the Lichenes or Lichen family) ...
Common Lungwort
Characteristics
A creeping plant found often in woodland and sometimes at the base of hedges.
Commonly known as lungwort, this plant's long, tapered green leaves feature silver spots. It blooms in the early spring, just as new foliage is emerging. This plant's buds are pink, but open as bright blue.
While lungworts will grow for a short time in very dark settings, this is not the ideal condition for best performance.
Lungwort
Pulmonaria hybrids
An attractive perennial for shade to semi-shade, lungwort is grown for its attractive, low-growing, clumping foliage which is often spotted. Early spring flowers appear in shades of pink and blue or a combination.
Lungwort's common name & genus name allude to its alleged Signatures value. Because Lungwort's leaves have spots, this is the "Signature" of its curative effect for spotty lung diseases.
Blue Lungwort ( Pulmonaria angustifolia )
Blue Magnolia ( Magnolia acuminata )
Blue Maid Meserve Holly ( Ilex meserveae ) ...
White Himalayan Lungwort
Rotula aquatica
Carmona viminea, Ehretia viminea, Rhabdia viminea ...
Lungwort
Lungwort, Bethlehem Sage Pulmonaria saccharata
Maackia
Amur Maackia Maackia amurensis
Madrone
Pacific Madrone Arbutus menziesii
Magnolia (Magnolia)
Bullbay Magnolia grandiflora
Butterflies Magnolia 'Butterflies' ...
Longleaf Lungwort [English]: Pulmonaria longifolia 'Diana Clare'
Longleaf Lungwort [English]: Pulmonaria 'Little Star'
Longleaf Lungwort [English]: Pulmonaria longifolia 'E.B. Anderson'
Longleaf Mahonia [English]: Mahonia nervosa ...
Long-Leafed Lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia)
Long-Leafed Lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia 'Bertram Anderson')
Long-Leafed Yellowwood (Podocarpus henkelii)
Long-spine Hawthorn (Crataegus succulenta)
Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) ...
Many new selections of Lungwort have emerged in recent years, making this genus somewhat more competitive with Hosta and Coralbells as the premier perennial for shady areas.
The leaves, which - are generally alternate, are usually entire and narrow: the radical leaves in some genera, as Pulmonaria (lungwort) and Cynoglossum, differ in form from the stem-leaves, being generally broader and sometimes heart-shaped.
Good planting companions include hellebores, lungworts (Pulmonaria), primroses (Primula) and pasque flowers (Pulsatilla).
few-leaved hawkweed, golden lungwort, hawkweed, wall hawkweed
Family
Asteraceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)Compositae (South Australia) ...
Pulmonaria species are so much nicer than their name, which somehow sounds like a lung disease; in fact, its common name is lungwort. They are low-growing plants with hairy leaves.
The infusion made from 10g of mullein flowers, 30g of barrel skid leaves, 10g lungwort leaves, 10g lichen is consumed three times a day. Also an infusion containing milk can be made.
Pulmonaria 'Silver Shimmers'
('Silver Shimmers' lungwort) Be the first to rate this plant
Hardiness Zones:
1 ...
One of its common names was "bullocks lungwort," taken from a common home cure used to treat cattle with coughs and pneumonia. Sap from the crushed leaves of the plant is said to alleviate the pain of insect bites.
Mentha arvensis, Field Mint
Mertensia paniculata, Tall Lungwort
Mitella nuda, Naked Mitrewort
Moneses uniflora, One Flowered Pyrola
Monotropa uniflora, Indian Pipe
Oenothera spp, Evening Primroses ...
Plant mitsuba with other herbs of similar culture such as sweet cicely, chervil, bee balm, lamium, lungwort, violets, and woodland strawberries.
Planting Mitsuba ...
Hellebores are wonderful companion plants for Galanthus (snowdrops), Primula (primroses), Tiarella (foam flowers), Epimediums (barrenwort), Pulmonaria (lungwort), and...... well just about anything that pleases you.
Pulmonaria species Lungwort
Santolina chamaecyparissus Lavender Cotton *
Sedum species Stonecrop
Sempervivum tectorum Hen-and-chicks
Stachys byzantina 'Big Ears' Lamb's Ear *
Teucrium fruticans Silver Germander * ...
Pulmonaria - Lungwort - quite happy in damp woodland.
Ranunculus. Moisture lover
Rogersia best in damp moist soil.
Salvia - Hardy types. Happy in moist soil - as well as dry areas.
Thalictrum
Tiarella cordifolia - The foam flower ...
(lungwort)
Rhubarb
Salvia Ã- superba
Saxifraga Ã- urbium (London pride)
Schizostylis coccinea
Sedum spectabile (ice plant)
Senecio cineraria (sea ragwort)
Stachys byzantina (lamb's ears)
Tagetes erecta (African marigold) ...
 See also: Green, May, Pink, Hosta, Bells
  
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