| Family | BORAGINACEAE |
| Genus species | Mertensia paniculata (Aiton) G.Don |
| Bibliography | Gen. Hist. 4: 318 (1837) |
| Native Range | Subarctic America to n. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Description | leaves thin, veined, basal leaves cordate, stem leaves numerous, shortly petiolate, lanceolate to broadly ovate, inflorescence lax, corolla 9-16mm long |
| Size | 40-95cm |
| Color | bluish red |
| Bloom | spring, summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Casselia paniculata (Aiton) Dumort. Cerinthodes longistylum (Ledeb.) Kuntze Cerinthodes paniculatum (Aiton) Kuntze Lithospermum corymbosum Lehm. Lithospermum paniculatum (Aiton) Kuntze Lithospermum schreberianum Spreng. Mertensia corymbosa G.Don Mertensia leptophylla Piper Mertensia longistyla Ledeb. Mertensia membranacea Rydb. Mertensia palmeri A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr. Mertensia paniculata f. leptophylla (Piper) J.F.Macbr. Mertensia paniculata var. longisepala J.F.Macbr. Mertensia pilosa (Cham.) G.Don Mertensia pumila (Schrank) Popov Platynema paniculata (Aiton) Schrad. Pulmonaria elegans Roem. & Schult. Pulmonaria paniculata Aiton Pulmonaria parviflora Schrank Pulmonaria pilosa Cham. Pulmonaria pumila Schrank Steenhammera kamczatica Turcz. Steenhammera pilosa Turcz. |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (IOW Iowa, MIN Minnesota, WIS Wisconsin) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (CNT Connecticut, MIC Michigan) |