Echium vulgare known as viper`s bugloss and blueweed is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30 - 80 cm 12-31 in tall, with rough, hairy, oblanceolate leaves. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue and are 15-20 mm in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. The pollen is blue but the filaments of the stamens remain red, contrasting against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September.

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