Echium sabulicola

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iEchium sabulicola
Sand Viper's Gloss Echium simplex
Sand Viper's Gloss Echium simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Echium
Species: E. sabulicola
Binomial name
Echium sabulicola
Pomel, 1874

Echium sabulicola (syn. Echium confusum Coincy, Echium maritimum Willd.; Sand Viper's Gloss) is a plant included in the genus Echium. It is a herbaceous biennial plant and grows up to 70 cm in height and requires plenty of sun and prolong dry periods. They are founded in the sandy areas of the coast of the island of Majorca and the Mediterranean coast.

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[edit] Habitat

It has its own flowering region and are in the coasts of the Balearic Islands and the Mediterranean. The plant requires dry air and exposure to the sun.

[edit] Description

The flowers nad its calix forms up to five stems. Zygomorphous corolla of 12 to 22 mm in width and has five petals.

[edit] Flowering

The plant blooms in the end of April and blooms in the autumn months in during tis favourable time.

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