Viper s Bugloss - Echium vulgare 1

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare
Other names: Blue Echium, Blue Thistle, Blueweed, Common Echium, Common Viper's Bugloss, Common Viper's-bugloss, Paterson's Curse, Viper's Bugloss
Family: Boraginaceae

Flower Colour:

blue,

Bloom in:

June,

July,

August,

September,

Type of flowering:

number of petals 5,

It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30–80 cm (12–31 in) tall, with rough, hairy, oblanceolate leaves.[8] The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue, and are 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. The pollen is blue[9] but the filaments of the stamens remain red, contrasting against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September in the Northern Hemisphere. The Latin specific epithet vulgare means common. [Wikipedia]