Echium vulgare L., 1753

Common names

🇬🇧 Viper’s Bugloss
🇫🇷 Vipérine commune, Vipérine vulgaire

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 vulgare

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with E. plantagineum L., 1771, whose flowers have a corolla which is hairy only on the edge and the ridges, and whose leaves have visible secondary veins, while E. vulgare has flowers whose corolla is uniformly pubescent, and has leaves with only the main vein visible.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

E. vulgare subsp. pustulatum (Sm.) Bonnier & Layens, P (het. syn. E. vulgare var. pustulatum (Sibth. ex Sm.) Coincy, 1900);
E. vulgare subsp. vulgare L., 1753, P (het. syn. E. vulgare var. vulgare L., 1753).

Photographs

img/echium-vulgare-5.webp — *Echium vulgare*

img/echium-vulgare-6.webp — *Echium vulgare*

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

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

img/echium-vulgare-3.webp — *Echium vulgare*

img/echium-vulgare-7.webp — *Echium vulgare*

img/echium-vulgare-4.webp — *Echium vulgare* - Leaves

Sources

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