| Scientific Name: | Echium vulgare |
| Common Name: | blueweed, viper's bugloss |
| Family Name: | Boraginaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Biennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Sessile, Prickly, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Blue, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Basal leaves oblanceolate, 6-25cm long x 0.5-3cm wide; stem leaves alternate sessile, lanceolate with bristly hairs and white speckles; florets appear on a panicle in the second year, 12-20mm long; nutlets angular, 4 per floret. <a href ="http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Echium%20vulgare" target="_blank">eFlora BC</a> | |