Echium

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Echium vulgare
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Echium
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Species

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Echium is a genus of 60 species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. The type species is Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss. Species of Echium are found in North Africa, Southern Africa, Europe, Madeira and the Canary Islands, as well as parts of East Asia. One species, Echium plantagineum (Patterson's Curse), is a major invasive species in Australia.

Echium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora onosmella and Orange Swift.

[edit] Species

  • Echium acanthocarpum Svent.
  • Echium aculeatum Poir.
  • Echium albicans Lag. & Rodr.
  • Echium angustifolium Lam.
  • Echium arenarium Guss.
  • Echium asperrimum Lam.
  • Echium auberianum Webb et Berth.
  • Echium bethencourtii Santos
  • Echium boissieri Steudel
  • Echium bonnetii Coincy
  • Echium brevirame Sprague et Hutch.
  • Echium callithyrsum Webb ex Bolle
  • Echium candicans L. fil. : Pride of Madeira
  • Echium creticum L.
  • Echium decaisnei Webb
  • Echium fastuosum
  • Echium flavum Desf.
  • Echium gaditanum Boiss.
  • Echium gentianoides
  • Echium giganteum L. fil.
  • Echium handiense Svent.
  • Echium humile Desf.
  • Echium italicum L. : Pale Viper's-bugloss
  • Echium lancerottense Lems et Holz.
  • Echium leucophaeum Webb ex Sprague et Hutch.
  • Echium lusitanicum L.
  • Echium marianum Boiss.
  • Echium parviflorum Moench : Small-flowered Viper's-bugloss
  • Echium pavonianum Boiss.
  • Echium pininana Webb et Berth. : Giant Viper's-bugloss
  • Echium plantagineum L. : Purple Viper's-bugloss, Patterson's Curse
  • Echium pustulatum Sibth. & Sm.
  • Echium rosulatum Lange : Lax Viper's-bugloss
  • Echium russicum J.F.Gmel.
  • Echium sabulicola Pomel
  • Echium salmanticum Lag.
  • Echium simplex DC.
  • Echium strictum L.f.
  • Echium sventenii Bramw.
  • Echium tuberculatum Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Echium virescens DC. : Tower of Jewels
  • Echium vulgare L : Viper's Bugloss
  • Echium webbii Coincy
  • Echium wildpretii Pears. ex Hook. fil.
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