Borago officinalis, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 109

1. B. officinalis L. , Sp. Pl. 137 (1753).

Hispid annual; stems 15-70 cm, erect, robust, often branched. Basal leaves 5-20 cm, ovate to lanceolate, petiolate; upper cauline leaves sessile, amplexicaul. Pedicels 5-30 mm, stout, patent or deflexed after anthesis. Calyx 8-15 mm at anthesis, up to 20 mm in fruit; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, connivent in fruit. Corolla rotate, bright blue, rarely white; tube very short or almost absent; lobes 8-15 mm, lanceolate, acute. Nutlets 7-10 mm, oblongobovoid. 2« =16. Dry, often waste places. S. Europe; widely cultivatedfo r ornament and as a pot-herb andfo r bees, naturalized in the warmer parts o f C., E. & W. Europe and an occasional casual or short-lived escape further north. *Az BI Co Cr Ga Gr Hs It Ju Lu Sa Si Tu [Au Br Cz Ge He Ho Hu Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E)].