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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Echium vulgare “Vipers Bugloss | Auntie Dogma's Garden Spot
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Bugloss is a name (from Greek ??????????, boúgl?sson, "ox-tongue") used for several plants in the borage family (Boraginaceae):

  • Barrelier's bugloss (Anchusa barrelieri)
  • Bugloss or small bugloss (Anchusa arvensis)
  • Bugloss fiddleneck (Amsinckia lycopsoides)
  • Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis)
  • Cretan viper's bugloss (Echium creticum)
  • Dyers' bugloss (Alcanna tinctoria)
  • Giant viper's bugloss (Echium pininana)
  • Italian Bugloss (Anchusa azurea)
  • Purple viper's bugloss (Echium plantagineum)
  • Siberian bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla)
  • Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii)
  • Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare)

Bugloss is part of the name of an insect:

  • The viper's bugloss (Hadena irregularis), a noctuid moth in the tribe Hadenini, whose caterpillar feeds on viper's bugloss and related plants

Bugloss may also be:

  • Bugloss (French: Buglosse), the 28th day of the month of Floréal in the French Republican calendar
  • Viper and Bugloss, characters created by columnist Peter Simple: see List of Peter Simple's characters
  • HMS Bugloss (K306), a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy

Source of article : Wikipedia