Other common names:
Blueweed French names:
Vipérine commune Family: Borage Family (Boraginaceae) Flowers: Summer; Blue/Violet Habitat: Fields and Open Areas Grows in Sun/Shade:
Sun Books: Newcomb's Wildflower Guide: 50 Native/Non-native:
Non-native Origin and Meaning of Names:
Scientific Name: vulgare: common (Latin) For more information visit: Ontario Wildflowers Photographs:
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Closeup view of a Viper's Bugloss flower.
Side view of a Viper's Bugloss flower.
Sometimes Viper's Bugloss flowers are white.
A swallowtail butterfly on a Viper's Bugloss plant.
Viper's Bugloss plants in a meadow.
One of this plant's common names is Viper's Bugloss. I don't know who Viper is, nor do I know why he lost his bugs. :) I have no idea what that name means!
A single flowering stalk.
Viper's Bugloss basal rosette. This will be next year's flowering plant.
Viper's Bugloss after the flowers are all done. They get very grey looking.
PLEASE NOTE: A coloured Province or State means this species occurs somewhere in that Province/State.
The entire Province/State is coloured, regardless of where in that Province/State it occurs.
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