Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echium vulgare
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Viper's Bugloss at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echium vulgare
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ecvu_001_lvd
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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.
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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.
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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.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echium vulgare
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echium vulgare
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-04-001:
Echium vulgare
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
2008
Forb
Biennial
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it on roadsides, dry pastures, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Bright blue-violet/ White or pink with age
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p050
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p186
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p422
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p212
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p210
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p135