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borage family

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Noun1.borage family - a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit
Boraginaceae, family Boraginaceae
plant family - a family of plants
order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales
Borago, genus Borago - perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region
Amsinckia, genus Amsinckia - rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks
genus Anchusa - rough and hairy Old World herbs
Cordia, genus Cordia - tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
Cynoglossum, genus Cynoglossum - a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae
Echium, genus Echium - a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula - stickweed; beggar's lice
genus Lithospermum, Lithospermum - annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia
genus Mertensia, Mertensia - a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels
genus Myosotis, Myosotis - forget-me-nots; scorpion grass
genus Onosmodium, Onosmodium - a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae
genus Symphytum, Symphytum - comfrey
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The other members of the borage family vary considerably in the way in which we can use them in our gardens.
Seeding a symbol of hope by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
It also contains fresh ginger and comfrey ( a member of the borage family ( which, like the nettles, grows at High House Farm.
Six ale flavours to savour by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
This plant belongs to the borage family (boraginaceae), and is close cousins with comfrey, borages and other symphtums.
And sow to bed; Time to curl up with a good seed catalogue by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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