Lithodora
Lithodora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to southwestern Europe, southern Greece, Turkey and Algeria. They are low-growing, evergreen shrubs and subshrubs, producing 5-lobed blue or white flowers. The Greek lithodora literally means "stone gift", referring to their preferred rocky habitats.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
shrubby gromwell
speciesLithodora fruticosa
Shrubby Gromwell
speciesLithodora hispidula
Greek Gromwell
speciesLithodora zahnii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 186126.