What is it?

[Newbie]

Hello,

I have added a picture of a plant to the album in my user CP, can anyone tell me what it is please? I dug it out last summer as it was taking over the bed and was covered in black splodges but now there are little babies sprouting up again.

Many thanks.

[FionaH]

I would say it is borage

[pipkins]

Hi,

If it looks a bit like this Pentaglottis sempervirens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is a member of the Borage family

[snohare]

Looks like the borage that was growing all over my allotment. If it has little spots like drops of spilt paint on the leaves, then that is it. (There are a few other plants with similar sorts of leaves.) Don't know if they are as good, I suspect not, but I've heard that you can harvest the leaves and use them as you would comfrey.

[Reb Williams]

You can also cook with borage (if you are confident enough that it IS borage).

Reb
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[Newbie]

many thanks guys, going by the pictures it certainly seems to look like Borage. I'll pot up the little babies that are sprouting up & plant them beside the compost heaps (when i finally get around to moving them to where i want them!)

[Llamas]

Green Alkanet Pentagottis sempervirens in the borage family - as suggested by pimpkins (Francis Rose The Wildflower Key page 362