| Scientific Name: | Brunnera macrophylla |
| Common Name: | Siberian bugloss |
| Family Name: | Boraginaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Rugose, Pubescent, Ovate, Ciliate, Sinuate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Blue, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, heart-shaped, most blades 8-20cm long x 6-15cm wide, light green, common with interveinal white variegation (B. 'Jack Frost'), or veins and margin are dark green with a wide band of white variegation on the margin (B. 'Dawson’s White'), silver-dominated foliage with contrasting thin green veins (B. 'Silver Heart'); flowers like forget-me-nots, about 1cm wide, 5 blue petals with whitish centre ring where they're fused, central dark spot hides the other flower parts, Apr.-May. | |