Green Alkanet
Green Alkanet - Pentaglottis sempervirens
A bristly plant usually of 30 to 60 cm in height. Stems branched, stem leaves unstalked. Flowers bright blue with a white scaly throat 8 to 10 mm in small long-stalked leafy cymes.
Damp or shady habitats, woodland margins, hedgebanks and cultivated land.
April to July.
Perennial.
Frequent and widespread throughout most of Britain except the extreme north.
Now common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in just 50 of the 617 tetrads.
 Church Walk Sapcote SP 4894 9321 (taken 19.5.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
19 May 2007
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood, Ratby
18 April 2009
David Nicholls
Ratby Church
19 October 2012
David Nicholls
Narborough Bog
02 May 2011
David Nicholls
Aylestone Meadows
18 May 2013
 Church Walk Sapcote SP 4894 9321 (taken 19.5.2007).JPG)
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Agromyza abiens/myosotidis/lithospermi agg.
The larvae of the Agromyzid flies Agromyza abiens, Agromyza myosotidis and Agromyza lithospermi produce identical mines on the leaves of several food plants in the Boraginaeceae family, such as Borage, Comfrey and Green Alkanet plus a number of other host plants. The initial narrow gallery contains frass in a double line, which it then expands to form a blotch mine. Several larvae may occupy a leaf to form a large blotch. Because the mines on these plants cannot be reliably separated to species level we treat them as an aggregate.