Lithospermum is a genus of plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. The genus is distributed nearly worldwide, but most are native to the Americas and the center of diversity is in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Species are known generally as gromwells or stoneseeds.
Gromwell may refer to plants in one of two closely related genera:
Lithospermum arvense, the field gromwell, corn gromwell, or bastard alkanet, is a flowering plant of the family Boraginaceae. It is also known as Buglossoides arvensis.
Lithospermum officinale, or common gromwell or European stoneseed, is a plant species of the genus Lithospermum.
Cheddar Wood is an 86.9-hectare (215-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Cheddar in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, notified in 1967.
Rodney Stoke is a 69.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, just north of the village of Rodney Stoke in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1957.
The Perch is a 72.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to Cheddar Gorge in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. It received SSSI notification in 1990.
Lithospermum incisum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by several common names, including narrowleaf stoneseed, fringed gromwell, narrowleaf puccoon, and plains stoneseed. It is native to much of central Canada and the United States, where it is known from many types of habitat. It is a hairy perennial herb growing from a taproot and woody caudex. It produces a cluster of stems up to about 30 centimeters long. The stems are lined with narrow, pointed leaves up to 6 centimeters long. The slender, trumpet-shaped flowers are pale to bright yellow or gold, and may approach 4 centimeters long. The corolla face is 1 to 2 centimeters wide, its lobes sometimes ruffled.
Lithospermum canescens, or the hoary puccoon is a perennial herb endemic to eastern North America. The plant has golden yellow flowers which bloom from April to May.
Alkanet is the common name of several related plants in the borage family (Boraginaceae):
Coleophora pennella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in most of Europe.
Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum, the purple gromwell, is a herbaceous perennial rhizomatous plant of the genus Lithospermum, belonging to the family Boraginaceae.
The streaked ethmia moth is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found from southern Canada and the northern United States east of the Rocky Mountains. In the Midwest, the range extends south to Texas.
Glandora oleifolia, the olive-leaved gromwell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. The plant is native to a small rocky area near Figueras in the eastern Pyrenees, and is endemic to Spain.
Lithospermum erythrorhizon, commonly called purple gromwell, red gromwell, red-root gromwell and redroot lithospermum, is a plant species in the genus Lithospermum. It is called zǐcǎo (紫草) in Chinese, jichi (지치) in Korean, and murasaki in Japanese.
Purple gromwell is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Lithospermum tuberosum, commonly called the southern stoneseed or tuberous stoneseed, is a species of flowering plant in the forget-me-not family. It is native to the Southeastern United States, where it is found in calcareous woodlands.
Lithospermum parviflorum, commonly called Eastern Prairie Marbleseed, is a species of flowering plant in the forget-me-not family. It is native to the eastern North America.
Glandora prostrata, the shrubby gromwell, creeping gromwell or purple gromwell, is a species of Glandora native to Portugal, Spain and France. Its cultivars 'Grace Ward' and 'Heavenly Blue' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
