ECHIUM
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ECHIUM
Includes the monocarpic monsters, E. pininana, which, if conditions permit, will self seed and multiply to bee-loving pillars.
Flower colours are blue, purple, yellow, white or red.
Genus of rosette-forming, stiffly hairy annuals and evergreen biennials, perennials (some monocarpic - plants which flower and fruit just once and then die) and shrubs from stony hillsides, cliffs, open woodland and grassy steppes in Europe, the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean, Africa and western Asia.
The UK native is E. vulgare, viper's bugloss, a biennial important for attracting insects.
Full Plant Details - Sun/Soil & other attributes
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Good to know
Grown for their spikes of funnel- or bell-shaped flowers. Wildlife plant - bees, hoverflies. -
Place of origin
Europe, Canary Islands, Mediterranean, Africa, western Asia. -
Evergreen
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Herbaceous
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Medium shrubTypically grow to around 4-6 feet in height
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Tall Shrub
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skin irritant
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Bee friendly
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Echium - Growing Guide
