#family_Boraginaceae__Boraginaceae__borage_family a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit
supertype: #plant_family__plantfamily a family of plants
member of: #order_Polemoniales
member: #genus_Borago__Borago perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region
member: #tailwort__borage__Borago_officinalis hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
member: #genus_Amsinckia__Amsinckia rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks
member: #common_amsinckia__Amsinckia_intermedia annual of western United States with coiled spikes of yellow-orange coiled flowers
member: #large-flowered_fiddleneck__Amsinckia_grandiflora annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes; a threatened species
member: #genus_Anchusa rough-hairy Old World herbs
member: #anchusa any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers
member: #genus_Cordia__Cordia tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
member: #Equador_laurel__Spanish_elm__salmwood__cypre__princewood__Cordia_alliodora large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood
member: #princewood__Spanish_elm__Cordia_gerascanthus tropical American timber tree
member: #genus_Cynoglossum__Cynoglossum a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae
member: #Chinese_forget-me-not__Cynoglossum_amabile biennial east Asian herb grown for its usually bright blue flowers
member: #Cynoglossum_officinale__hound's-tongue__hound'stongue biennial shrub of Europe and western Asia having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and dark reddish-purple flowers
member: #hound's-tongue__hound'stongue__Cynoglossum_virginaticum perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers
member: #genus_Echium__Echium a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
member: #blueweed__blue_devil__blue_thistle__viper's_bugloss__viper'sbuglos__Echium_vulgare a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
member: #genus_Hackelia__Hackelia__Lappula__genus_Lappula stickweed; beggar's lice
member: #beggar's_lice__beggar_lice Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
member: #genus_Lithospermum__Lithospermum annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia
member: #gromwell__Lithospermum_officinale European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands
member: #puccoon__Lithospermum_caroliniense perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
member: #hoary_puccoon__hoarypuccoon__paint_Indian__Lithospermum_canescens perennial North American plant with grayish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
member: #genus_Mertensia__Mertensia a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels
member: #Virginia_bluebell__Virginia_cowslip__Mertensia_virginica smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud
member: #genus_Myosotis__Myosotis forget-me-nots; scorpion grass
member: #garden_forget-me-not__Myosotis_sylvatica small biennial to perennial herb of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia having blue, purple or white flowers
member: #forget-me-not__mouse_ear__mouseear__Myosotis_scorpiodes__myosotisscorpiode small perennial herb having bright blue or white flowers
member: #genus_Onosmodium__Onosmodium a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae
member: #false_gromwell__falsegromwell any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers
member: #genus_Symphytum__Symphytum comfrey
member: #comfrey perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas
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