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viper's-bugloss
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viper's-bugloss

Echium vulgare

Echium vulgare — known as viper's bugloss and blueweed — 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.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

viper's-bugloss in Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)

Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.545

viper's-bugloss in Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)

Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)

Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.245

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In the stacks

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56174.