Borago officinalisL.

Borage

WFO wfo-0000568964 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Borago officinalis, photographed by thulahn
fig. a thulahn, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-31 / obs. 202132159
Borago officinalis, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. b Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203170949
Borago officinalis, photographed by Damiano Oldoni
fig. c Damiano Oldoni, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200668155
Borago officinalis, photographed by jufox
fig. d jufox, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203215910
Borago officinalis, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197190403
Borago officinalis, photographed by Dr. Sven Gippner
fig. f Dr. Sven Gippner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197444348
Borago officinalis, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. g Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197296716

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Flowering n = 3,492 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,492 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Borago advena Gilib.
  • Borago aspera Gilib.
  • Borago hortensis L.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.