Common name:
Borage
Family:
Scientific name:
Borago officinalis
Main flower color:
Range:
England and Wales; an introduced species
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Disturbed and waste ground
Flowers:
Up to 25 mm across; five blue petals, with pointed tips, alternating with five narrow, purplish sepals, covered in bristly whitish hairs; all held a little below the plane. From the centre projects a column of five hairless, purple stamens around a four-lobed stigma
Leaves:
Ovate, covered with bristly, bulbous-based hairs. Stalked around the base, sessile and clasping higher up
Season:
May to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
