Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Boraginales > Family Boraginaceae > Genus Echium

Echium vulgare L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echium*	L.	accepted genus name
*Isoplesion*	Raf.	synonym
*Larephes*	Raf.	synonym
*Megacaryon*	Boiss.	synonym

Species group names

*Echium asturicum*	Lacaita	heterotypic synonym
*Echium vulgare subsp. asturicum*	(Lacaita) G. Klotz	heterotypic synonym
*Echium lycopsis*	L.	synonym; nom. rej.
*Echium wierzbickii*	Rchb.	synonym

Children

Echium vulgare L. subsp. vulgare
Echium vulgare subsp. pustulatum (Sm.) Em. Schmid & Gams

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Aragonese: botón de gato; viborera sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Asturian: cardosa; cardosín; chupamiel; h.ortiga montesina; hierba de las siete sangrías sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Catalan: baldofa; bigalosa; bolenc bort; boleng; bolenga borda; borraina borda; borratja borda; borratxa borda; bovina; cerradeta; cul de porc; herba de la víbora; herba de la vibra; herba del vibre; herba viborera; herba viperina; herba vivorera; herva de la víbora; llengua bovina borda; viborera; viperina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Euskera: idimia; sugegorri-belarra; susegorri-belar sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: borralla brava; borrasca; borraxa; borraxa bravía; borraxon; borraxón; erva viperina; herba viboreira; loberma; loberme; suaxes; suaz; viperina; xoá sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

High Aragonese: yerba zerruda sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: borralla brava; borraxa brava; borraxón; chupamel; erva da víbora; erva viperina; erva-viperina; herva da víbora; lingoa de boi; lingoa de vaca brava; soaxe; viperina ordinaria sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: boninos; buglosa salvaje; hierba de la víbora; jarrita; lengua de buey salvage; lengua de buey salvaje; lenguardia; lenguaza; viborera; viborera común; viborera morada; viperina; vivorera morada; yapazos; yerba de la víbora sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Valencian: borraina borda; bovina; bugalosa; cardet pelut; cerradeta; cul de porc; serradeta

Literature

nomenclatural reference	L., Sp. Pl. 1753.

Genbank

Citation

Valdés, B. (2011): Boraginaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Echium vulgare L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=1A51B059-9ACC-4B4E-B560-34C50A0EB4FC