Group: Spermatophytina (Spermatophytes)
Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-Me-Not family)
Genus: Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
Pulmonaria angustifolia L. - Blue Cowslip
Pulmonaria mollis Hornem. - Sticky Lungwort
Pulmonaria collina W. Sauer - Hill Lungwort
Pulmonaria montana Lej. - Mountain Lungwort
Pulmonaria officinalis L. - Lungwort
Pulmonaria obscura Dumort. - Suffolk Lungwort
10–30 cm tall. flowers: reddish, bluish or violet. fauces-scales: developed as hirsute stripes or sulci. calyx: 5‑leaved; at maturity: enlarged, cross-section rounded. sepals: incised to 50 %. calyx-lobes: broad oval to 3‑angular. styli: originating between the segme...
The colours represent the floristic status of the species in the respective region. Green indicates native occurrences, light green naturalized occurrences. Adventive occurrences are represented by light yellow shades and plants that are cultivated (but rarely occur in the wild) are dark yellow. Grey colours are used, if the floristic status of species is unknown or uncertain.
![]() |
Natural, established occurences | ![]() |
Artificial occurences |
The color intensity reflects the species' abundance
Data: Floristische Kartierung Deutschlands (Stand 2013), Bundesamt für Naturschutz (www.floraweb.de)
perennial herbaceous vegetation, forests, shrubbery
in periodically wet habitats