Scientific Name: Pulmonaria saccharata
Common Name: lungwort
Family Name: Boraginaceae
Origin: Europe, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form:
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Waterside planting, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Blue, Pink, Mar-Apr-May
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, long-stalked, elliptical, bristly-pubescent, mottled with white spots or blotches, up to 30cm long; florets nodding with 5 bluish petals that emerge pinkish, in branched terminal cymes, about 1.5cm wide.