Echium plantagineum L., 1771

Common names

🇬🇧 Purple Viper’s-bugloss
🇫🇷 Vipérine à feuilles de plantain, Vipérine faux plantain, Vipérine plantain

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superasterids
Clade: Asterids
Clade: Lamiids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Boraginoideae
Tribe: Lithospermeae
Subtribe: Echiinae
Genus: Echium
Species: Echium plantagineum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with E. vulgare L., 1753, whose flowers have a uniformly pubescent corolla, and whose leaves have only the main vein visible, while E. plantagineum has flowers whose corolla is hairy only on the edge and the ridges, and has leaves with visible secondary veins.

Photographs

img/echium-plantagineum.webp — *Echium plantagineum*

img/echium-plantagineum-2.webp — *Echium plantagineum*

img/echium-plantagineum-4.webp — *Echium plantagineum*

img/echium-plantagineum-3.webp — *Echium plantagineum* - Leaf

img/echium-plantagineum-5.webp — *Echium plantagineum* - Leaf

Sources

Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 548). Biotope.