Boraginaceae
Italian viper's bugloss
Echium italicum
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Echium
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Common names
By language (10)
- Arabic
- زهرة الأفعى الإيطالية, ساق الحمام, مصيص
- arz
- زهرة الافعى الايطاليه
- azb
- قوزو قولاغی
- Bulgarian
- Италианско усойниче
- Catalan
- Bolenga
- English
- Italian viper's bugloss
- German
- Italienischer Natternkopf
- Hungarian
- Magas kígyószisz
- Persian
- گل گاوزبان ایتالیایی
- Swedish
- Italiensk snokört
Synonyms
- Echium altissimum Jacq.
- Echium balearicum Porta
- Echium collinum Salisb.
- Echium elongatum Lam.
- Echium glomeratum Ledeb.
- Echium italicum var. balearicum (Porta & Rigo) O.Bolòs & Vigo
- Echium linearifolium Moench
- Echium luteum Lapeyr.
- Echium pyramidale Lapeyr.
- Echium pyramidatum DC.
- Echium pyrenaicum L.
- Echium ramosum Gaterau
- Echium strictissimum Schur
- Isoplesion italicum Raf.
Flowers
- In flower
- April to July (from 652 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Biennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Veljo Runnel, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Mattia Aaron Miroddi, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: User:Amada44, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: tato grasso, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Béla Halasi-Kovács, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: tato grasso, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andrés Pasolargo Rodriguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: stef90, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.