Lungwort

Lungwort (Pulmonaria) - These are vigorous and hardy in any soil. Most of them grow well under the shade of trees, and all succeed best in shade. They form dense tufts of foliage, generally handsomely blotched and speckled with white, and make pretty groups in the spring garden, or in semiwild places, but are worthy of the best places in the flower garden. There are about half-a-dozen kinds, all like each other. P. officinalis and P. angustifolia are native plants. P. officinalis (sometimes called P. saccharata) has rosy flowers turning to blue, and P. angustifolia bears blue flowers. P. mollis is intermediate between the two, and P. grandiflora is somewhat similar to P. officinalis, P. azurea has rich blue flowers. P. arvernense, with deep blue flowers, is of refined habit, and well suited to the rock-garden. There is a white-flowered form of it. Chiefly natives of Europe. P. dahurica is sometimes called Mertensia dahurica.

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Pulmonaria Azurea

Pulmonaria Azurea - Flower stems about 8 inches high, flowers a full, perfect blue in bunchy heads, what botanists call a "twin capitale" raceme. Some flowers in the head stand up and some slightly droop. Leaves dark green, no spots, broad, lanceshaped, 8 to 10 inches long, stand up in a prosperous-looking tuft after the flowers are over. It is very near the rare native P. angustifolia, but a good bit better as a garden plant. Flowers in May, and a really good plant.