Index / Search / Cynoglossum officinale
§1 Plant
Cynoglossum officinale L.
vernacular gypsyflower — species · Boraginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Boraginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cynoglossum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 244 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 244 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Yellowstone 30111
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 45 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Buchanan 51027
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Greene 51079
- Highland 51091
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Orange 51137
- Pulaski 51155
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
West Virginia view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Berkeley 54003
- Brooke 54009
- Calhoun 54013
- Gilmer 54021
- Grant 54023
- Greenbrier 54025
- Hampshire 54027
- Hardy 54031
- Jefferson 54037
- Kanawha 54039
- Marion 54049
- Marshall 54051
- Mason 54053
- Mercer 54055
- Mineral 54057
- Monongalia 54061
- Monroe 54063
- Ohio 54069
- Pendleton 54071
- Pocahontas 54075
- Preston 54077
- Putnam 54079
- Raleigh 54081
- Randolph 54083
- Summers 54089
- Webster 54101
- Wetzel 54103
- Wirt 54105
- Wood 54107
- Wyoming 54109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYOF ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2925815 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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