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Echium vulgare
Echium vulgare is a species of Echium native to most of Europe, and western and central Asia. It is also common in North America. It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30–80 cm (12–31 in) tall, with rough, hairy, lanceolate leaves. 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. Stamens remain red and stand out against the blue flowers. It flowers between May and September. It is found in dry, bare and waste places.
Often found in the dunes
Called 'Slangenkruid' in Dutch
Spotted on Jul 19, 2011
Submitted on Aug 20, 2011
6 Comments
The blue, combined with the red in the middle, all that detail. It's an amazing flower!
hm, that may be right... one flower is not so impressive as the whole plant, but that blue is like a piece of the sky.
I guess I'm looking for the structure, the architecture so to speak. It's more or less obvious in the plant as such, but hard to pinpoint in just one flower. I'll keep on trying :-)
think so? I like them a lot. See? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/636... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/630...
I find it an impossible plant for great pictures. Don't know why, but every time I see it I try,... and ... not satisfied ... again.
This is such a beautiful flower, we have a lot of it in a meadow near where I live. Except in England it's also known as Viper's Bugloss... I dunno why, I'm not even sure what a "bugloss" is! But they are gorgeous, I should get a photo of the ones I've seen :) That first photo is so interesting.