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.
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:
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MT°, WA*, WY°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- 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
- More:
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:
- 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.:
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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
-
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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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14879 (09 February 2010)
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