
Viper's-buglosses
Echium
Echium /ˈɛkiəm/ is a genus of 60 species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium vulgare

purple viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium plantagineum

Pride of Madeira
speciesEchium candicans

Giant Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium pininana

Pale Bugloss
speciesEchium italicum

Lax Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium rosulatum

Cretan Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium creticum

sand viper's bugloss
speciesEchium sabulicola

Narrow-leaved Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium angustifolium

Red Mount Teide Bugloss
speciesEchium wildpretii

Coastal Pride of Madeira
speciesEchium nervosum

Echium asperrimum
speciesEchium asperrimum

Echium tuberculatum
speciesEchium tuberculatum

Echium decaisnei
speciesEchium decaisnei

Echium gaditanum
speciesEchium gaditanum

Judean Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium judaeum

Small-flowered Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium parviflorum

Echium virescens
speciesEchium virescens

Violet-vein Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium lusitanicum

Echium bonnetii
speciesEchium bonnetii

Echium aculeatum
speciesEchium aculeatum

Tower of Jewels
speciesEchium simplex

Echium webbii
speciesEchium webbii

Echium strictum
speciesEchium strictum

Echium triste
speciesEchium triste

White-leaved bugloss
speciesEchium albicans

Tall Viper's-bugloss
speciesEchium glomeratum

Echium brevirame
speciesEchium brevirame

Echium perezii
speciesEchium perezii

Echium boissieri
speciesEchium boissieri

Echium leucophaeum
speciesEchium leucophaeum

Echium horridum
speciesEchium horridum

Echium thyrsiflorum
speciesEchium thyrsiflorum

Echium humile
speciesEchium humile

Sand Bugloss
speciesEchium arenarium

Echium onosmifolium
speciesEchium onosmifolium

blue bugloss
speciesEchium acanthocarpum

Echium callithyrsum
speciesEchium callithyrsum

Echium giganteum
speciesEchium giganteum

cow tongue
speciesEchium stenosiphon

Echium flavum
speciesEchium flavum

Echium auberianum
speciesEchium auberianum

Echium pitardii
speciesEchium pitardii

Echium rauwolfii
speciesEchium rauwolfii

Echium portosanctense
speciesEchium portosanctense

Echium salmanticum
speciesEchium salmanticum

Echium hierrense
speciesEchium hierrense

Echium hypertropicum
speciesEchium hypertropicum

Echium velutinum
speciesEchium velutinum

Echium tenue
speciesEchium tenue

Echium amoenum
speciesEchium amoenum

Echium bethencourtii
speciesEchium bethencourtii

Echium trygorrhizum
speciesEchium trygorrhizum

Echium vulcanorum
speciesEchium vulcanorum

Echium anchusoides
speciesEchium anchusoides

Echium modestum
speciesEchium modestum

Echium petiolatum
speciesEchium petiolatum

Echium sventenii
speciesEchium sventenii

Echium × bond-spraguei
hybridEchium × bond-spraguei

Echium montenielluense
speciesEchium montenielluense
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.685

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.545

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.606

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1168

Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.92

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.661

Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1231

History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.757

History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.756

History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.686

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.546

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.546
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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 56175.