Echium vulgare
TaxID: 34253
Basic Information
Echium vulgare
Blue Echium, Blueweed
Echium vulgare, known as viper's bugloss and blueweed, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is native to most of Europe and western and central Asia and it occurs as an introduced species in north-eastern North America, south-western South America and the South and North Island of New Zealand. If eaten, the plant is toxic to horses and cattle through the accumulation of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the liver. The plant root was used in ancient times as a treatment for snake or viper bites. According to the Doctrine of signatures, plants were thought to have traits (in this case a speckled stem reminiscent of snake skin, and flowers like an open viper's mouth) that mirror the ailment they treat.
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Taxonomic Information
Eukaryota
Streptophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Echium
vulgare
nan
Species
nan
k__Eukaryota;p__Streptophyta;c__Magnoliopsida;o__Boraginales;f__Boraginaceae;g__Echium;s__Echium vulgare
nan
Weeds
Photos (5 photos)
Morphological Features
No morphological description available.
Host Plants (0 host plants)
Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.
No host plants available.
Quarantine Status (2 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
Distribution (66 countries)
Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.
| Country | Status | State |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | Present | — |
| Algeria | Present | — |
| Andorra | Present | — |
| Argentina | Present | — |
| Armenia | Present | — |
| Australia | Present | — |
| Austria | Present | — |
| Azerbaijan | Present | — |
| Belgium | Present | — |
| Bulgaria | Present | — |
Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)
Download CSVGenomes (0 records)
Data source: NCBI.
No genome records available.
Transcriptomes (1 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Run ID | Tissue | Developmental Stage | Sex | Read Count | Location | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRR11921640 | flowers | - | - | 17113590 | Not applicable | |
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PRJNA636634 SRX8467362 SRP265566 weed RNA-seq of Echium vulgare phylogenetic and whole genome duplication studies of the asterids {'tissue': 'flowers', 'biosamplemodel': 'Plant', 'specimen_voucher': 'FUS: Hong Ma L19', 'biomaterial_provider': 'Bonn University Botanical Garden'} |
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DNA Barcodes (22 records)
View allData source: BOLD.
| Process ID | BIN | Marker | Length | Country | Date | Lat/Lon | Sequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RBG167-08 | - | matK | 773 | Canada | 2007-07-23 | 43.281, -79.939 | |
| POWNA229-10 | - | rbcL | 542 | United Kingdom | 1992-07-01 | 51.46417, -3.160915 | |
| POWNA1536-12 | - | rbcL | 542 | United Kingdom | 1981-01-01 | 51.596416, -2.8964749999999997 | |
| ITSAC3200-14 | - | ITS2 | 220 | New Zealand | - | -43.827656, 170.69035 | |
| IPSUB837-18 | - | trnH-psbA | 353 | United States | 1950-01-01 | - | |
| IPSUB836-18 | - | trnH-psbA | 355 | United Kingdom | 1919-01-01 | 53.978447, -2.852944 | |
| IPSUB835-18 | - | trnH-psbA | 357 | Sweden | 1950-01-01 | 62.73421, 17.062431 | |
| IPSUB591-18 | - | trnH-psbA | 352 | Canada | 1992-01-01 | - | |
| IPSUB523-18 | - | trnH-psbA | 351 | Australia | 1989-01-01 | - | |
| IPSUB514-18 | - | trnH-psbA | 356 | Canada | 1958-01-01 | - |
Literature
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