| Family | BORAGINACEAE |
| Genus species | Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link |
| Bibliography | Handbuch 1: 580 (1829) |
| Native Range | e. Canada to nc. & e. USA |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Description | leaves lanceolate to ovate, blue-green, to 15cm long, stem leafy with lax heads of pendent flowers, corolla 20-25mm long, limb shorter than tube, only a little spreading |
| Size | 30-50cm |
| Color | dark blue |
| Bloom | late spring, summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
| Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Casselia virginica (L.) Dumort. Cerinthodes virginicum (L.) Kuntze Hippoglossum virginicum (L.) Lilja Lithospermum pulchrum Lehm. Lithospermum virginicum (L.) Billb. Mertensia pulmonarioides Roth Mertensia virginica f. alba Allard Mertensia virginica f. berdi Moldenke Mertensia virginica f. rosea Steyerm. Pneumaria virginica (L.) Hill Pulmonaria glabra Stokes Pulmonaria tenella Salisb. Pulmonaria virginica L. Steenhammera virginica (L.) Kostel. |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 72 Eastern Canada (ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (ILL Illinois, IOW Iowa, KAN Kansas, MIN Minnesota, MSO Missouri, WIS Wisconsin) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (INI Indiana, MAI Maine, MAS Masachusettes, MIC Michigan, NWJ New Jersey, NWY New York, OHI Ohio, PEN Pennsylvania, VER Vermont, WVA West Virginia) 78 Southeastern U.S.A. (ALA Alabama, ARK Arkansas, DEL Delaware, GEO Georgia, KTY Kentucky, MRY Maryland, MSI Mississippi, NCA North Carolina, SCA South Carolina, TEN Tennessee, VRG Virginia, WDC District of Columbia) |