Echium candicansL.f.

Pride of Madeira

WFO wfo-0000662725 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Echium candicans, photographed by Jim Riley
fig. a Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203733031
Echium candicans, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. b Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202797655
Echium candicans, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. c Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203293977
Echium candicans, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195822879
Echium candicans, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195822424
Echium candicans, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195815802
Echium candicans, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195817082
Echium candicans, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. h Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195894944

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Flowering n = 881 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 881 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Argyrexias candicans Raf.
  • Echium brachyanthum Hornem.
  • Echium candicans var. noronhae Menezes
  • Echium cynoglossoides Desf.
  • Echium densiflorum DC.
  • Echium macrophyllum Lehm.
  • Echium maderense hort. ex Steud.
  • Echium marianum Boiss.
  • Echium pallidum Salisb.
  • Echium pavonianum Boiss.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.