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Lithospermum officinale (European stoneseed)

Synonyms: Lithospermum erectum; Lithospermum majus; Lithospermum ochroleucum; Lithospermum officinale var. parviflora; Margarospermum officinale (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Lithospermum officinale or Common Gromwell or European Stoneseed is a plant species of the genus Lithospermum. Its leaves are eaten by the caterpillars of the moth Ethmia pusiella.
View Wikipedia Record: Lithospermum officinale

Infraspecies

Lithospermum officinale var. officinale
Lithospermum officinale var. stewartii

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  A purple dye is obtained from the roots. It is best harvested in the spring;
Height [1]  30 inches (0.75 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Lithospermum officinale

Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cynoglossi[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0