Participant Info

Species

Anchusa azurea [Anchusa italica]

Family

Boraginaceae

CommonName

Italian bugloss, alkanet

Presence

Maybe

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1956

LatestDate

1956

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

NCristos

Counties

Costilla

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Anchusa officinalis has been recorded from one Watershed location, collected in 1956 at “Grimwood Place,” between Blanca and Fort Garland (Costilla Co). A perennial, this exotic is sometimes cultivated as a garden flower, and is considered a noxious weed in the Pacific Northwest, but it doesn’t seem to have persisted in the Watershed. It has escaped, here and there, around the more temperate regions of the USA. Incidentally, the common name, "bugloss," has a long heritage, deriving from Proto-Indo-European roots, through Greek (bous + glössa = ox-tongued), Latin, and Middle French.

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