Echium plantagineum, Purple Viper's Bugloss - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Purple viper's bugloss, Paterson's curse

Botanical name & synonyms: Echium plantagineum, Echium alonsoi, Echium bonariense, Echium creticum subsp. plantagineum, Echium longistamineum, Echium lycopsis, Echium murale, Echium orientale, Echium plantaginifolium, Echium plantaginoides, Echium pseudoviolaceum, Echium sennenii, Echium violaceum

Family: Borage, forget-me-not (Boraginaceae)

• native to western Europe, Mediterranean region, Macaronesia
  

• annual
  

• 20 to 60cm
  

• flower VI to VIII
  

• plant community: wasteland, ruderal