OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echium vulgare   FAMILY Boraginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echium vulgare   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Echium vulgare

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-04-001:

Echium vulgare   FAMILY Boraginaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Viper's-bugloss, Blueweed


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image of Echium vulgare, Viper's-bugloss, Blueweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ecvu_001_lvd

        

image of Echium vulgare, Viper's-bugloss, Blueweed

JK Marlow    jkm0507e_34

July    Greenbrier County    WV

Roadside

Pronounced "bew-gloss" not "bug-loss," referring to an ox's tongue, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Echium vulgare, Viper's-bugloss, Blueweed

JK Marlow    jkm0507e_34b

July    Greenbrier County    WV

Roadside

Corolla conspicuously irregular, lobes rounded and spreading, the throat open, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Echium vulgare, Viper's-bugloss, Blueweed

JK Marlow    jkm0507f_01

July    Greenbrier County    WV

Roadside

Cauline lvs oblong to linear-lanceolate, sessile, progressively smaller upward, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echium vulgare   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echium vulgare   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echium vulgare

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-04-001:
Echium vulgare   FAMILY Boraginaceae

 

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2008

Forb
Biennial

Habitat: Roadsides, dry pastures, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in Carolinas (waifs in GA)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Bright blue-violet/ White or pink with age
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)

 

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