noun. Any of several usually hairy Old World plants, especially in the genera Anchusa, Brunnera, and Echium, having blue or violet flowers.

noun. The popular name of the plant Anchusa officinalis.

noun. A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the Anchusa officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.

noun. the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis.

noun. a species of Echium.

noun. Any of several plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.

noun. widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States

noun. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers

"Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long."

spanish bugloss  

anchusa  weed  

artichoke  brocoli  choy  cilantro  comfrey  

oxtongue  

alkanet