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Taxon: Echium vulgare L.

Genus: Echium
Family: Boraginaceae subfamily: Boraginoideae.
Nomen number: 14879
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:139. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Apr-2000
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
MT°, WA*, WY°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • blue echium   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  • blue-devil   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • blueweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • viper's-bugloss   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • blou-echium   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  • lan ji   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • gewöhnlicher natternkopf   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – German
  • borrago   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • erva-azul   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • sinyak obyknovenny   (Source: Pulmonaria ) – Transliterated Russian
  • viborera   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Turkey [n.w.]
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    China: China - Xinjiang [n.]
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Bennett, M. 2003. Pulmonarias and the Borage family. (Pulmonaria) 108.
  • Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Guillarmod, A. J. 1971. Flora of Lesotho. (F Lesotho)
  • Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Klemow, K. M. et al. 2002. The biology of Canadian weeds. 116. Echium vulgare L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 82:235–248.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos. (F Int Apico)
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
  • Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
  • Retief, E. & A. E. Van Wyk. 1998. The genus Echium in southern Africa. Bothalia 28:174.
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria. (F VictWillis)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
More:

Check other databases for Echium vulgare L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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