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Echium vulgare
TOWER OF JEWELS Viper's Bugloss

SKU: 482-10
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Echium vulgare - known as viper's bugloss - is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is native to most of Europe, and western and central Asia and it occurs as an introduced species in north-eastern North America.

It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30-80 cm (12-31 in) tall, with rough, hairy, oblanceolate leaves. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue and are 15-20 mm (0.59-0.79 in) in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. The pollen is blue but the filaments of the stamens remain red, contrasting against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September.

Echium vulgare is cultivated as an ornamental plant, and numerous cultivars have been developed.

Type: Hardy perennial

Hardiness zones: 3-9

Height: 30-80 cm (12-31")

Location: Sun

Seeds per packet: 10

Echium vulgare
TOWER OF JEWELS Viper's Bugloss

SKU: 482-10
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Echium vulgare - known as viper's bugloss - is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is native to most of Europe, and western and central Asia and it occurs as an introduced species in north-eastern North America.

It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30-80 cm (12-31 in) tall, with rough, hairy, oblanceolate leaves. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue and are 15-20 mm (0.59-0.79 in) in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. The pollen is blue but the filaments of the stamens remain red, contrasting against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September.

Echium vulgare is cultivated as an ornamental plant, and numerous cultivars have been developed.

Type: Hardy perennial

Hardiness zones: 3-9

Height: 30-80 cm (12-31")

Location: Sun

Seeds per packet: 10