Gypsyflower
Cynoglossum officinale L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 79 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Boraginaceae
Formerly Cynoglossum bicolor, Cynoglossum bracteolatum, Cynoglossum castellanum, Cynoglossum hybridum, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to W. & S. Siberia and IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 79 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 红花琉璃草
- Czech
- užanka lékařská
- German
- Echte Hundszunge
- French
- cynoglosse officinale
- Dutch
- veldhondstong, Veldhondstong
- Simplified Chinese
- 红花琉璃草
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Hundetunge
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Hundetunge
- Slovenian
- navadni pasji jezik
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cynoglossum officinale (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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