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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Leaves: Other: stem leaves are progressively smaller up the stem
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Other: pink buds turn purple when open
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Toxicity: Other: may cause irritation to sensitive skin
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Days to germinate: 21 to 30
Depth to plant seed: 0.3 cm
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • Viper's Bugloss
  • Blueweed
  • Blue Devil

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Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2015-09-20
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2013-06-01
Location: My garden
Date: 2017-05-30
Location: New Zealand
Date: 2006-12-31
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2017-06-30
Location: Roberta Georgia
Date: April
b4 bloom
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2015-09-20
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2014-06-26
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2013-05-28
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2010-09-12
Over-wintered rosette
Location: Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-06-14
Location: My garden
Date: 2017-05-30

Wild growing introduced species:  Echium vulgare & Verbascum thap
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-11-02
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2018-02-28
Location: Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) colonizing the banks of a highway. Montreal, June 2012.
Date: 2012-06-18
Photo courtesy of:Lubiesque
Location: Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-06-14
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2013-05-28
Location: Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2010-07-04
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Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-07-19
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-08-07
Location: Crescent City, California
Date: 2015-11-04
Ripening seeds
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-11-02
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-11-02
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-06-20

Date: Late June 2020
Wild plant
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: Mid Summer
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Uploaded by threegardeners
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2007-06-30
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-11-02
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-11-02
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-11-02

Date: June
credit: Oswald Engelhardt

 Photo Courtesy of Select Seeds. Used with permission.
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Darrel Hess /  http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/hessd/e5242
Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Dec 7, 2011 4:01 AM concerning plant:
    An Illinois (mostly northern half) and Missouri (probably Midwest) wildflower that likes open disturbed ground, along roadsides, and railroads.
    Native of Europe.
    Viper descriptive refers to resemblance of seed to a viper's head.
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