Echium vulgare

Echium vulgare

:"See also Viper's Bugloss (moth) for the insect."

Taxobox
name = Viper's Bugloss


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Viper's Bugloss in flower
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Boraginales
familia = Boraginaceae
genus = "Echium"
species = "E. vulgare"
binomial = "Echium vulgare"
binomial_authority = L.

"Echium vulgare" (Viper's Bugloss) is a species of "Echium" native to most of Europe, and western and central Asia."Flora Europaea": [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Echium&SPECIES_XREF=vulgare&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= "Echium vulgare"] ] Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14879 "Echium vulgare"] ]

It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30-80 cm tall, with rough, hairy, lanceolate leaves. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue and are 15-20 mm in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. Stamens remain red and stand out against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September. It is found in dry, bare and waste places.Fitter, R. & A. (1974). "The Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe". Collins.]

It has been introduced to North America and is naturalised in parts of the continent, being listed as an invasive species in Washington.

ee also

* Monofloral honey
* Northern Nectar Sources for Honeybees

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