Bindweed (Calystegia sepium) is growing too. This is the only member of the tribe native to the Atlantic region of south-west Europe. III. It is harvested from the wild for local use as a food. Pentaglottis sempervirens (≡ Caryolopha sempervirens). I love the name Alkanet it sounds like an Egyptian God! – Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), – White dead-nettle (Lamium album, – Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum), – Brunnera macrophylla, – Aubrieta deltoidea – and Vinca minor were all flowering. 28. The second part of its scientific, latin, name (Pentaglottis sempervirens) means ‘always alive’ or evergreen, possibly because the leaves start to appear in late winter or early spring, adding a splash of green to the last grey tendrils of winter. The Description. Green Alkanet is a wild flower which grows freely in my garden under the shade of a tree. (Anchusa sempervirens -> Pentaglottis sempervirens. : evergreen bugloss, green alkanet, evergreen alkanet. Herbs-Treat and Taste is about herbs and spices and their uses in medicine and cookery.We give recipes and information which enable people to have a healthier diet which can prevent certain illnesses and alleviate symptoms such as a cough, sore throat etc.There is information on different herbs,their history ,what other people think or thought about them and what we think. This represents the last remains of a culture that has been orally transmitted since ancient times. Green Alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens, is a native of South Western Europe and seems to have been introduced in to Britain before 1700, probably during the Middle Ages. It has a Root, thicker and shorter than that of Bugloss, something blackish without, and whitish within, perishing after Seed time, but rises again of its own Sowing, in the Spring of the Year. Due to the rate of acculturation, which has increased since the 1980’s, popular human uses of medicinal plants are currently decreasing. Like Dyers Bugloss, Alkanna tinctoria, for which it is frequently mistaken, green alkanet … Engl. The leaves are not edible, but the flowers are perfect as a garnish. The knowledge on medicinal and veterinary plants appears to be well preserved in Galicia. Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens) Green alkanet is a member of the borage family, and the flowers are actually blue rather than green. Alkanet, also called bugloss, any plant of the 50 or so mostly Mediterranean species of the genus Anchusa and the closely related Pentaglottis sempervirens, bearing blue, purple, or white flowers, similar to those of forget-me-nots, on hairy herbaceous stems.They belong to the family Boraginaceae. -Henriette.) Deu. 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