Comfrey family : BORAGINACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Austrocynoglossum latifolium Forest Hound’s Tongue Morwell Park, December 1990	Borago officinalis Borage Sydney, September 2006	Cynoglossum suaveolens Sweet Hound’s Tongue Morwell Park, December 1990	Echium fastuosum Pride of Madeira Concord, September 2006
Echium plantagineum Paterson's Curse Sydney, September 2006	Halgania cyanea Mallee Blue-flower Hattah Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, October 1991	Heliotropium amplexicaule Blue Heliotrope Goodna, Queensland, Photos: courtesy of Harold McQueen	Heliotropium arborescens Heliotrope Wyee, March 2007

Myosotis sylvatica Wood Forgetmenot Morwell Park, September 2000

Trichodesma zeylanicum Cattle Bush Alice Springs, January 2014 Photo: courtesy of Uwe Path

Plants in BORAGINACEAE have been used as foodplants for the caterpillars of a number of Australian Butterfly species, including:

Arhopala micale

Erysichton lineatus

Phaedyma shepherdi

Plants in BORAGINACEAE have been used as foodplants for the caterpillars of a number of Australian moth species, including:

Neumichtis saliaris	Cremnophora angasii	Ardices glatignyi	Utetheisa pulchelloides	Lyncestis melanoschista	Ethmia clytodoxa
Ethmia heliomela	Ethmia nigroapicella	Ethmia sphaerosticha	Dialectica aemula	Dialectica scalariella	Scopula perlata

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 31 January 2026)