Species
Purple viper’s bugloss
Echium plantagineum
Varieties
4 entries| Variety | Description | Prices (EUR) | Details |
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| Blue BedderBSI-H218400 | — |
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| dwarf hybrids mixedBSI-H218000 | — |
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| Rose BedderBSI-H218100 | — |
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| White BedderBSI-H218200 | — |
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Echium plantagineum is an annual or biennial with broad basal leaves and hairy flowering stems.
Botanical characteristics
The funnel-shaped flowers have projecting stamens, giving the inflorescences a bristly outline. It can self-seed abundantly. Contact with its hairs may irritate the skin, a relevant distinction when describing this ornamental species.
Bedder colours and mixtures
Blue Bedder, Rose Bedder and Dwarf Hybrids Mixed offer separate seed labels.
At a glance
Species profile
Characteristics
- Life cycle
- Annual
Botanical details
- Botanical name
- Echium plantagineum
- Common names
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- blue echium; blueweed; lady campbell-weed; paterson's-curse; plantain viper's-bugloss; purple bugloss; purple echium; purple viper's-bugloss; purple-bugloss; riverina bluebell; salvation jane; viper's-bugloss
- Synonyms
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- echium alonsoi; echium bonariense; echium creticum; echium creticum maritimum; echium creticum plantagineum; echium creticum subsp. plantagineum; echium diffusum; echium latifolium; echium longistamineum; echium lusitanicum; echium lycopsis; echium maritimum; echium murale; echium orientale; echium plantagineum album; echium plantagineum f. roseum; echium plantagineum maroccanum; echium plantagineum monodasystemon; echium plantagineum roseum; echium plantagineum sennenii; echium plantagineum var. album; echium plantagineum var. maroccanum; echium plantagineum var. monodasystemon; echium plantagineum var. sennenii; echium plantaginifolium; echium plantaginoides; echium pseudoviolaceum; echium sennenii; echium violaceum; echium violaceum medium; echium violaceum var. medium; echium vulgare violaceum
- Order
- Boraginales
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Echium
- Species
- Echium plantagineum