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Green Alkanet:

UK Status: Resident and native.

Flowering Period: From April through into July. .

Appx Height: 30cm and up to 60cm.

Habitat: This is a plant of damp and shady areas such as woodland, ditches and hedgerows. It is a member of the Forget-me-not family (Boraginaceae), and you can see the similarity in the flowers.

Comment: This plant is fairly common and well distributed throughout England and Wales. It is absent in the Welsh mountains, and scarcer in Scotland, becoming scarcer the further north. It is absent from North Scotland, and the Scottish Isles. In Ireland it is only found in the north.