Echium vulgare – description, flowering period and general distribution in New York. young plant

Echium vulgare – description, flowering period and general distribution in New York. covered with prickly setae with an admixture of small whitish-gray villi

Echium vulgare – description, flowering period and general distribution in New York. lonely bush

Echium vulgare – description, flowering period and general distribution in New York. sky blue flowers

Echium vulgare – description, flowering period and general distribution in New York. Flowering plant - a very valuable honey plant

Scientific name:

Echium vulgare

Common name(s):

Viper's bugloss, Blueweed, Blue thistle.

Life form:

Forb, Herb.

Flowering time:

41 days.

Flowering period

in New York for this plant is: June ↔ August.

NECTAR PRODUCTION:

300–1,000 pounds honey/acre

SOURCE FOR HONEY BEES:

Major

General distribution:

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 America.

Map of distribution and habitat in USA

This plant is present in at least 52 states/provinces in this country.

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Botanical description:

It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30–80 cm tall, with rough, hairy, oblanceolate leaves. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue and are 15–20 mm 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.

Seasonal development:

It flowers between June and August.

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