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Omphalodes

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Omphalodes (navelwort) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. It includes eleven species native to Europe and western Asia. In spring they produce blue or white flowers similar to forget-me-nots.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderBoraginales
  5. FamilyBoraginaceae
Native toAlbania, Austria, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Spain
Observations recorded20,744

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
104
With media
93
Family
Boraginaceae
Collections
INECOL, NHMUK, CAS, VT, MEL, BPBM
Recorded in
Mexico, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, United States, Tibet, Japan, Turkey, Anatolia

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Omphalodes (navelwort) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. It includes eleven species native to Europe and western Asia. In spring they produce blue or white flowers similar to forget-me-nots.

Both the Greek Omphalodes (navel-like) and the English "navelwort" refer to the shape of the seeds.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Omphalodes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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