蓝蓟 Echium vulgare

  • Scientific Name: Echium vulgare L.
  • Ref: Sp. Pl.:139. 1753
  • Synonyms:
    • Echium anglicum Huds.
    • E. elegans Noë ex Nyman
    • E. lacaitae Sennen
    • E. laetum Salisb.
    • E. monstrosum F.W.Schmidt ex Steud.
    • E. parviflorum St.-Lag.
    • E. schifferi Lange
    • E. spinescens G.Klotz
    • E. tenoreanum Lacaita
    • E. vaudense Gremli
    • E. vulgare var. lacaitae (Sennen) O.Bolòs & Vigo
    • E. wierzbickii Haberle ex Rchb.
  • English Common Name: blueweed, viper’s bugloss
  • Chinese Common Name: 蓝蓟 lánjì
  • Japanese Common Name: シベナガムラサキ [蕊長紫] shibenagamurasaki
  • Family: Boraginaceae
  • Genus: Echium
  • Distribution: Rocky areas. N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; W Asia, Europe, North America].
  • Photo: Kanasi, Xinjiang
Herbs biennial. Stems usually erect, to 1 m, usually much branched, spreading hirsute, densely short appressed pubescent. Basal and lower stem leaves linear-lanceolate, ca. 12 × 1.4 cm, long strigose, base attenuate; upper stem leaves sessile, lanceolate, smaller. Inflorescences long, narrow, many flowered; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 4-15 mm. Flowers somewhat crowded. Calyx 5-parted to base, hirsute outside; lobes lanceolate-linear, ca. 6 mm, to 1 cm in fruit. Corolla blue-purple, oblique-campanulate, ca. 1.2 cm, short appressed pubescent outside; lobes unequal, upper lobe larger. Filaments 1-1.2 cm; anthers oblong, ca. 0.5 mm. Style ca. 1.4 cm; stigma terminal. Nutlets ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm, tuberculate. 2n = 16, 32 (31, 33, 34). (Flora of China)

Kanasi, Xinjiang

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