Viper's bugloss
Echium vulgare
In Dutch: Slangenkruid
Annuals & biennialsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.3 to 1 m
- Spread
- 0.1 to 0.5 m
- Full grown after
- 1 to 2 years
- Sun
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry, sandy or chalky
- Water
- Little: grows on dry ground in the wild
- Maintenance
- Low: pruning is not necessary
- Flowers
- May to September, blue
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of nectar and pollen, May to September
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop: the plant dies after flowering
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Mildly: the leaves
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €2.50 to €4.09 each, in a small pot
- Price, grown
- About €6.50 each, in a bigger pot, minimum order 10
Through the year
- Leaf
- March to October
- Flower
- May to September
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit