lungwort

lung +‎ wort

• Having an appearance reminiscent of lungs
• Having been used as a treatment for respiratory ailments

lungwort (plural lungworts)

1. Any of various European plants, of the genus Pulmonaria (family Boraginaceae), that were once used to treat respiratory disorders.
2. Any of several other, not closely related plants, used to treat respiratory disorders
   1. Hieracium murorum (in family Asteraceae, French lungwort or golden lungwort)
   2. Helleborus niger (family Ranunculaceae, black lungwort)
   3. Mertensia (family Boraginaceae)
      1. Mertensia virginica (American lungwort, lungwort oysterleaf, smooth lungwort, tree lungwort)
      2. Mertensia maritima (sea lungwort)
   4. Verbascum thapsus (in family Scrophulariaceae, bullock's lungwort, cow's lungwort or clown's lungwort)
   5. Lobaria pulmonaria, syn. Stichta pulmonacea, (in family Lobariaceae, lungwort lichen, lung lichen, tree lungwort)

• American lungwort (Mertensia virginica)
• black lungwort (Helleborus niger)
• Bethlehem lungwort (Pulmonaria saccharata)
• blue lungwort (Pulmonaria angustifolia)
• bullock's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
• clown's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
• common lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis)
• cow's lungwort (Verbascum thapsus)
• French lungwort (Hieracium murorum)
• golden lungwort (Hieracium murorum)
• lanceleaf lungwort (Mertensia lanceolata)
• longleaf lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia)
• lungwort lichen (Lobaria pulmonaria)
• lungwort oysterleaf (Mertensia virginica)
• narrowleaf lungwort (Pulmonaria angustifolia)
• Oregon lungwort (Lobaria oregana, Mertensia bella)
• red lungwort (Pulmonaria rubra)
• sea lungwort (Mertensia maritima)
• smooth lungwort (Lobaria quercizans, Mertensia virginica)
• Suffolk lungwort (Pulmonaria obscura)
• tall lungwort (Mertensia paniculata)
• textured lungwort (Lobaria scrobiculata)
• tree lungwort (Mertensia virginica, syn. Sticta pulmonacea)
• unspotted lungwort (Pulmonaria obscura)

• liverwort (Hepatica spp.; Marchantiopsida spp.)
• spleenwort (Asplenium spp.)
• toothwort Cardamine subg. Dentaria spp.)
• woundwort (Stachys spp. etc.)

• doctrine of signatures (Paracelsus); (lungwort being a treatment for lung ailments, and having the appearance like lungs)