Echium

Taxobox
name = "Echium"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Echium vulgare"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
familia = Boraginaceae
genus = "Echium"
genus_authority = L.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Echium" is a genus of 60 species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. The type species is "Echium vulgare", viper's bugloss. Species of "Echium" are native to North Africa, Southern Africa, Europe, Madeira and the Canary Islands, as well as parts of East Asia. One species, "Echium plantagineum" (Patterson's Curse), is a major invasive species in Australia. Many species are used as ornamental and garden plants and may be found in suitable climates throughout the world.

"Echium" species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including "Coleophora onosmella" and Orange Swift.

pecies

*"Echium acanthocarpum" Svent.
*"Echium aculeatum" Poir.
*"Echium albicans" Lag. & Rodr.
*"Echium angustifolium" Lam.
*"Echium arenarium" Guss.
*"Echium asperrimum" Lam.
*"Echium auberianum" Webb et Berth.
*"Echium bethencourtii" Santos
*"Echium boissieri" Steudel
*"Echium bonnetii" Coincy
*"Echium brevirame" Sprague et Hutch.
*"Echium callithyrsum" Webb ex Bolle
*"Echium candicans" L. fil. : Pride of Madeira
*"Echium creticum" L.
*"Echium decaisnei" Webb
*"Echium flavum" Desf.
*"Echium gaditanum" Boiss.
*"Echium gentianoides"
*"Echium giganteum" L. fil.
*"Echium handiense" Svent.
*"Echium humile" Desf.
*"Echium italicum" L. : Pale Viper's-bugloss
*"Echium lancerottense" Lems et Holz.
*"Echium leucophaeum" Webb ex Sprague et Hutch.
*"Echium lusitanicum" L.
*"Echium marianum" Boiss.
*"Echium nervosum" Dryand. in W.T. Aiton
*"Echium parviflorum" Moench : Small-flowered Viper's-bugloss
*"Echium pavonianum" Boiss.
*"Echium pininana" Webb et Berth. : Giant Viper's-bugloss
*"Echium plantagineum" L. : Purple Viper's-bugloss, Patterson's Curse
*"Echium pustulatum" Sibth. & Sm.
*"Echium rosulatum" Lange : Lax Viper's-bugloss
*"Echium russicum" J.F.Gmel.
*"Echium sabulicola" Pomel
*"Echium salmanticum" Lag.
*"Echium simplex" DC.
*"Echium strictum" L.f.
*"Echium sventenii" Bramw.
*"Echium tuberculatum" Hoffmanns. & Link
*"Echium virescens" DC. : Tower of Jewels
*"Echium vulgare" L : Viper's Bugloss
*"Echium webbii" Coincy
*"Echium wildpretii" Pears. ex Hook. fil.