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Echium boissieri

Echium boissieri
Photo: Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Native range
S. Iberian Pen., NW. Africa
Climate
subtropical

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Echium boissieri is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is native to the western Mediterranean Basin in the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa. It is single-stemmed and can reach up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in height.

Other Echium plants

Echium aculeatum · Echium albicans · Echium amoenum · Sand Bugloss · Echium brevirame · Pride of Madeira · Cretan viper's bugloss · Echium horridum · Echium hypertropicum · Italian viper's bugloss · Judean Viper's Bugloss · Echium leucophaeum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echium boissieri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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