# Alkanet

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**Alkanet** is the common name of several related plants in the borage family ([Boraginaceae](/source/Boraginaceae)):

- Alkanet, *[Alkanna tinctoria](/source/Alkanna_tinctoria)*, the source of a red dye; this is the plant most commonly called simply "alkanet"
- Various other plants of the genus *[Alkanna](/source/Alkanna)*, may be informally called alkanet
- Alkanet or common bugloss, *[Anchusa officinalis](/source/Anchusa_officinalis)*
- Alkanet or field bugloss, *[Anchusa arvensis](/source/Anchusa_arvensis)*
- Bastard alkanet or field gromwell, *[Lithospermum arvense](/source/Lithospermum_arvense)*
- False alkanet, *[Cynoglottis barrelieri](/source/Cynoglottis_barrelieri)*
- Green alkanet, *[Pentaglottis sempervirens](/source/Pentaglottis)*, a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves
- Yellow alkanet, *[Anchusa ochroleuca](/source/Anchusa_ochroleuca)*

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