| Description | Borage is a good plant to add a true blue color to your garden. Has many culinary and medicinal uses |
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| Pronunciation | (an-KOO-suh) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Annuals |
| Hardiness Zone | 7 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, light, dry |
| Flowers | star shaped, 5 petaled, drooping blue flowers, black stamens, inflorescence is a cyme, reddish hairy peduncle |
| Leaves | dark gray green, oval, pointed, with prickly white hairs, wavy margins, there is a variegated form |
| Stems | white hairs, hollow, branching, cucumber scented |
| Dimensions | 12-18 inches tall |
| Maintenance | readily self seeds |
| Propagation | seeds, reported best in situ |
| Author's Notes | Have seen this plant used many times in gardens. I love the blue flower. With all of its nodding and open and closed flowers on the same cyme, it seems to have a "bad hair" day |
| Notes & Reference | #44-The Complete Book of Herbs (Lesley Bremness), #116-Pulmonarias and The Borage Family (Masha Bennett) |
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