Echium vulgare L.

Viper's-Bugloss

Boraginaceae

Taxonomy

Classification

Group: Spermatophytina (Spermatophytes)
Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-Me-Not family)
Genus: Echium (Viper's Bugloss)

Synonyms

Echium vulgare
Echium asturicum
Echium lycopsis
Echium vulgare subsp. asturicum
Echium wierzbickii

Related species

Echium vulgare L. - Viper's-Bugloss

Traits


    25–140 cm tall. plants: with rough hairs. flowers: corolla-lobes of slightly different habit, flower thereby (slightly) zygomorphic, bluish to reddish-violet. corolla: 15–40 mm long. fauces-scales: absent. calyx: 5‑leaved. stamina: bent, protruding out of the corolla...

    You find the complete description in our identification books.

Distribution

Distribution in Europe


Echium vulgare

Legend

The colours represent the floristic status of the species in the respective region. Green indicates native occurrences, light green naturalized occurrences. Adventive occurrences are represented by light yellow shades and plants that are cultivated (but rarely occur in the wild) are dark yellow. Grey colours are used, if the floristic status of species is unknown or uncertain.


Distribution in Germany

Echium vulgare

Legend

Natural, established occurences
Artificial occurences

The color intensity reflects the species' abundance

Data: Floristische Kartierung Deutschlands (Stand 2013), Bundesamt für Naturschutz (www.floraweb.de)

Ecology

Echium vulgare

Echium vulgare

Status

  • archaeophyte

Habitat

  • extensively used or natural grassland, dwarf shrub heaths, ruderal vegetation

  • in dry habitats

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