General Culture:

Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in part shade. Intolerant of dry soils. Prefers consistently moist, organically rich soils in shady areas. Easily grown from seed (perhaps best planted in autumn) and freely self-seed in the garden in optimum growing conditions. Clumps slowly spread by both creeping rhizomes and self-seeding to form thick ground covers.

Noteworthy Characteristics:

Siberian bugloss is a rhizomatous, clump-forming perennial which features small, forget-me-not-like flowers (light blue with yellow centers) in airy, branched racemes rising well above the foliage on slender stems to 18" tall in spring. Basal, heart-shaped, blackish-green leaves (3-5" wide) form a foliage mound which remains attractive throughout the growing season. Smaller stem leaves are elliptic. Bugloss comes from Greek meaning ox tongue in probably reference to the roughness and shape of the leaves. Synonymous with and sometimes sold as Anchusa myosotidiflora.