Narrow leaved lungwort?

[KeenTeen17]

Is this narrow leaved lungwort?

Sorry about the bad photos - it was very windy today

[leifus]

sorry common lungwort

i think narrow-leaved only grows in the New Forest....might be wrong..

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by leifus

sorry common lungwort

i think narrow-leaved only grows in the New Forest....might be wrong..

My book says its a garden escape - theres plenty of gardens about and there were loads of patches of this on my bike ride today

[Tiggrx]

Looks like Common Lungwort to me too

[Deer Stalker]

Hi KT

Narrow-leaved Lungwort Pulmonaria longifolia is native, as is Suffolk Lungwort P. obscura. Both are rare, with Narrow-leaved in SW Hampshire (mainly New Forest) & east Dorset.

Common Lungwort P.officinalis is a garden escape.

What book you got KT?

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Hi KT

Narrow-leaved Lungwort Pulmonaria longifolia is native, as is Suffolk Lungwort P. obscura. Both are rare, with Narrow-leaved in SW Hampshire (mainly New Forest) & east Dorset.

Common Lungwort P.officinalis is a garden escape.

What book you got KT?

Fitter, Fitter and Blamey
and Roger Philips' one
and the DK one which lungwort isn't in
and also Collins which I don't really use anymore
Reviews - Collins Nature Guide Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe

[davidbr]

I assume KT means Pulmonaria angustifolia, an Eastern European plant that's a garden escape (and a pretty rare one, according to my Alien Flora of the British Isles book).

This plant is just Common Lungwort, P. officinalis; all the pictures I've seen of P. angustifolia, such as this one, have quite distinct unspotted leaves.

There's also a garden hybrid, "Mawson's Blue" (one of those annoying ones that doesn't have a proper scientific name ), which seems to have darker, almost purple flowers - as in this picture

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

Fitter, Fitter and Blamey
and Roger Philips' one
and the DK one which lungwort isn't in
and also Collins which I don't really use anymore
Reviews - Collins Nature Guide Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe

Fitter, Fitter and Blamey, Roger Philips' & Francis Rose (The Wild Flower Key) all have P. longifolia as native.

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Fitter, Fitter and Blamey, Roger Philips' & Francis Rose (The Wild Flower Key) all have P. longifolia as native.

Oh right I get quite muddled up because theres the P. angustifolia and P. longifolia which appear in my Roger Philips but they are both listed as the Narrow Leaved Lungwort.

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

Oh right I get quite muddled up because theres the P. angustifolia and P. longifolia which appear in my Roger Philips but they are both listed as the Narrow Leaved Lungwort.

Ahh, I see.