Boraginaceae
Common lungwort
Pulmonaria officinalis
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Pulmonaria
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Common names
By language (40)
- Arabic
- حشيشة الرئة, شتلة الرئة, عشبة الرئة
- arz
- حشيشة الرئه
- Azerbaijani
- Dərman öfgəotu
- Basque
- Biri-belar
- Bulgarian
- Медуница
- Catalan
- Freixurera, Pulmonària
- Chinese
- 蓝花肺草, 藍花肺草, 药用肺草
- Croatian
- Plućnjak
- cv
- Кăвак çеçпĕл
- Czech
- Plicník lékařský
- Danish
- Hvidplettet lungeurt
- Dutch
- Gevlekt longkruid
- English
- Common lungwort, Lungwort
- Estonian
- Harilik kopsurohi
- Finnish
- Rohtoimikkä
- French
- Pulmonaire officinale
- Galician
- Herba dos bofes
- German
- Geflecktes Lungenkraut, Gemeines Lungenkraut, Echtes Lungenkraut
- Hungarian
- Orvosi tüdőfű
- Italian
- Polmonaria
- Japanese
- プルモナリア・オフィキナリス
- Kazakh
- Дәрілік балшытыр
- Latvian
- Dziedniecības lakacis, Ārstniecības lakacis
- Lithuanian
- Vaistinė plautė
- Macedonian
- Обична медуница
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Lungeurt
- Persian
- سینهدارو
- Polish
- Miodunka plamista, Miodunka lekarska
- Quechua
- Mulla qipuncha
- Romanian
- Plămânărică
- Russian
- Медуница лекарственная
- Serbian
- Plućnjak, Плућњак
- Serbian (Latin)
- Plućnjak
- Slovak
- Pľúcnik lekársky
- Slovenian
- Navadni pljučnik
- Spanish
- Pulmoraria officinalis
- Swedish
- Fläcklungört
- Turkish
- Ciğer otu, Ciger otu
- Ukrainian
- Медунка лікарська
- Welsh
- Llysiau'r ysgyfaint, Llysiau‘r ysgyfaint
Synonyms
- Pulmonaria tridentina Evers
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced
Photos
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Photo: GT1976, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: GT1976, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: AnRo0002, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sdjurovic, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sdjurovic, CC0, 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); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.