Boraginaceae
Prickly hound's tongue
Cynoglossum wallichii
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Cynoglossum
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Common names
By language (7)
- Cantonese
- 倒鈎琉璃草
- Chinese
- 西南琉璃草, 倒鈎琉璃草, 倒钩琉璃草, 倒钩西南琉璃草, 锚刺倒提壶
- English
- Prickly hound's tongue
- Finnish
- Intiankoirankieli
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Hagehundetunge
- Swedish
- Indisk förgätmigej
- Turkish
- Dikenli köpekdili
Synonyms
- Cynoglossum denticulatum A.DC.
- Cynoglossum glochidiatum Wall. ex Benth.
- Cynoglossum membranaceum A.DC.
- Cynoglossum microcarpum Kern.
- Cynoglossum wallichii var. alpinum C.B.Clarke
- Cynoglossum wallichii var. glochidiatum (Wall. ex Benth.) Kazmi
- Cynoglossum wallichii var. wallichii
- Paracynoglossum denticulatum (DC.) Popov
- Paracynoglossum glochidiatum (Benth.) Valdés
Photos
Photo: Fagus, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Fagus, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Arkadiusz Nowak, Marcin Nobis, Sylwia Nowak, Agnieszka Nobis, Anna Wróbel, Sebas, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.