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Echium salmanticum (blueweed; common vipersbugloss; common echium)

Synonyms: Echium lusitanicum (heterotypic); Echium lusitanicum polycaulon; Echium polycaulon; Echium vulgare (heterotypic)

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  UV-Blue
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The leaves are poisonous; No cases of poisoning have ever been recorded for this plant; The bristly hairs on the leaves and stems can cause severe dermatitis;
Lifespan [2]  Biennial/Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  A red dye is obtained from the root;
Height [2]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Width [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
View Plants For A Future Record : Echium salmanticum

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Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0