common bugloss
alkanet
anchusa officinalis latin

Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis)

Anchusa officinalis or Common Bugloss or Alkanet is a plant species of the genus Anchusa.

Note that the name "alkanet" is also used for dyer's bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) and common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis).

Anchusa officinalis L. : True Alkanet, Bugloss, Common Bugloss, Corn Bugloss, Field Bugloss (type species)

Powdered and mixed with oil, the alkanet root is used as a wood stain.

Green alkanet blooms in spring and early summer.

Various other plants of the Alkanna genus may be informally called alkanet.

In the centuries since then, the name has come to be used informally for some botanically related other plants (see Alkanet).

Green Alkanet is an introduced species in the UK, meaning it is not native.

In alkali environments the alkanet dye has a blue color, with the color changing again to crimson on addition of an acid.

In English in the late medieval era, the name alkanet meant Alkanna tinctoria.

Both sexes vists flowers as green alkanet, devil's-bit scabious and thistles.

Snowdrops, celandines, hound's tongue and alkanet have naturalised.

Hence, it can be used to do alkali-acid litmus tests (but the usual litmus test paper does not use alkanet as the agent).

The dye was made from the root of the alkanet plant (Anchusa officinalis), also known as murasaki in Japanese.

In Australia alkanet is approved for use as a food colouring, but in the European Union it is not.

In May and June there are many wild flowers, including green alkanet, herb Robert and creeping buttercup.

Alkanet or dyers' bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) is a plant in the borage family whose roots are used as a red dye.

Alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria)

Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens)

Anchusa barrelieri, Barrelier's bugloss or false alkanet, is a species of plant in the Boraginaceae plant family.

Alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria, the source of a red dye; this is the plant most commonly called simply "alkanet"

Anchusa sempervirens : Evergreen Alkanet)

Sources of rouge included Tyrian vermillion, rose and poppy petals, fucus, red chalk, alkanet, and crocodile dung.

He hurried to the bedchamber and from his saddlebags took a small pot of ointment, made from alkanet and hops grown on his Kent estate.

Anchusa officinalis or Common Bugloss or Alkanet is a plant species of the genus Anchusa.

Note that the name "alkanet" is also used for dyer's bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) and common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis).

Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet, evergreen bugloss or alkanet) is a bristly, perennial plant native to Western Europe.

The dye was made from the root of the alkanet plant (Anchusa officinalis), also known as murasaki in Japanese.

Anchusa officinalis (I)

Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis)

Note that the name "alkanet" is also used for dyer's bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) and common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis).