What is the common name for Echium vulgare?
Echium vulgare, know as viper’s bugloss, blue devil, blue thistle and blueweed, is native to southern Europe, but has naturalized over much of North America (except the far southeast and southwest) where it is most commonly found in pastures, fields, disturbed sites, waste places and roadsides. Echium vulgare, known as viper’s bugloss and blueweed, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae.
What are common uses for Echium?
Echium L. Boraginaceae family that includes several species traditionally used in herbal medicine. Echium spp. Echium vulgare L. Description: Biennial herbs to 90 cm high with one or more erect stems from the base; hairs appressed to spreading, dense, white. Leaves oblanceolate in the rosette, to 15 cm long and 1.