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The specific name scorpioides, i.e., “scorpion-like,” was given to the plant as early as the sixteenth century because the coiled inflorescence suggests the curving tail of a scorpion. The pale pink buds turn blue as the flower opens, indicating that the plant belongs to the borage family (for another member of the borage family, see “Lungwort,” April 28, 2013).