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Echium plantagineum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Echium plantagineum - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Echium plantagineum - Flower side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower side view; Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Echium plantagineum - Large leaves from the basal rosett and smaller ones from the branches - Click to enlarge!

Large leaves from the basal rosett and smaller ones from the branches; Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Echium plantagineum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Echium plantagineum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Echium plantagineum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Vila de Prado, Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 742
Date of entry: 09.03.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Salvation Jane

German: Wegerichblättrige Natternkopf

Portuguese: Chupa-mel, Lingua-de-vaca, Soagem-viperina

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Lamiales (196)

        Family: Boraginaceae (36)(family description)

          Genus: Echium (9)

            Epithet: plantagineum L. (1)

plantagineum => resembling a plantain

Characteristics

Climate: temperate, sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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