Echium vulgareL.

viper's-bugloss

WFO wfo-0000663145 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Echium vulgare, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. a Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205259711
Echium vulgare, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. b Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204824349
Echium vulgare, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. c Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205526711
Echium vulgare, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205685840
Echium vulgare, photographed by Clare Edwards
fig. e Clare Edwards, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204589528
Echium vulgare, photographed by Cilla Moerman
fig. f Cilla Moerman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204424846
Echium vulgare, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. g Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205979939

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Flowering n = 9,707 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 9,707 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 24 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.

  • Echium anglicum Huds.
  • Echium argentae Pau
  • Echium asturicum Lacaita
  • Echium elegans Noë ex Nyman
  • Echium lacaitae Sennen
  • Echium laetum Salisb.
  • Echium lusitanicum Georgi
  • Echium molle Pett.
  • Echium monstrosum Schmidt ex Steud.
  • Echium parviflorum St.-Lag.
  • Echium pustulatum Sm.
  • Echium schifferi Lange
  • Echium spinescens G.Klotz
  • Echium tenoreanum Lacaita
  • Echium tuberculatum Gilib.
  • Echium vaudense Gremli
  • Echium violaceum Stokes
  • Echium vulgare f. albiflorum Ralph Hoffm.
  • Echium vulgare f. vulgare
  • Echium vulgare var. argentae (Pau) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Echium vulgare var. grandiflorum Bertol.
  • Echium vulgare var. lacaitae (Sennen) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Echium vulgare var. vulgare
  • Echium wierzbickii Haberle ex Rchb.

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.