Common alkanet
Anchusa officinalis L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 56 cm
- wide
- —
Boraginaceae
Also called Common bugloss, Alkanet
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 41 cm to 71 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, red, pink, purple, violet, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Gemeine Ochsenzunge, Gewöhnliche Ochsenzunge, Liebäugel
- Finnish
- rohtorasti, häränkieli
- Russian
- Воловик лекарственный, Анхуза лекарственная
- French
- Buglosse officinale, buglosse officinale
- Danish
- Lægeoksetunge, Læge-oksetunge, Anchusa officialis
- Bulgarian
- Лечебно паче гнездо
- Swedish
- Oxtunga, Fåretunga
- Polish
- Farbownik lekarski
- Czech
- pilát lékařský
- Dutch
- Gewone Ossentong, gewone ossentong, Gewone ossentong
- Norwegian Bokmål
- oksetunge, Oksetunge
- Lithuanian
- Vaistinis godas, Paprastasis godas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Anchusa officinalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.