11; see text Omphalodes (navelwort) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.

[2] Both the Greek Omphalodes (navel-like) and the English "navelwort" refer to the shape of the seeds.

[3] O. verna and cultivars of O. cappadocica are grown in gardens for their blue flowers which in spring appear above the leaves in loose sprays.

The clade of the New World species also included the Juan Fernández Islands (off the coast of Chile) endemic Selkirkia berteroi and three species formerly placed in Cynoglossum, which were then transferred to a more broadly circumscribed genus Selkirkia.

[7] Omphalodes in its strict sense comprises Western Eurasian perennial species with a creeping rhizome.