Species Echium plantagineum
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Echium:
Gk. echion = from echis = viper; the nutlets appearing to represent a viper’s head. A name used by Dioscorides for a plant used to cure snake bites.
Etymology of plantagineum:
Resembling the genus Plantago, the plantain or fleawort
Scientific name:
Echium plantagineum L.
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Localities:
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Mant. Pl. Altera 202 (1771)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1771
Hairy annual or biennial to 65 cm. Basal leaves ovate to oblanceolate, lateral veins prominent. Flowers blue fading to pink, oblique and unequally lobed, sparsely hairy on the veins and margins. Sept.--Mar. Disturbed sites, NW, SW, LB, AP, KM, SE (European weed, widespread in Africa).
Observations of Taxon
Echium plantagineum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Echium plantagineum
Name of observer:
Elsa Pooley (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Echium plantagineum
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
10/08/2005 - 1:59pm
Collection:
Echium plantagineum
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
20/08/2016 - 11:20am
Collection:
Echium plantagineum
Name of observer:
Observer unknown (David)
Date observed:
04/12/2016 - 3:59pm
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