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Echium judaeum
Judean viper's bugloss is an annual herb of the borage family, native to dry shrubland and desert edges in the Eastern Mediterranean, growing to about 50 cm with bristly leaves and stems. It is grown mainly as a wildflower for its striking lavender-to-purple flowers, and it needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Echium judaeum, commonly known as the Judean viper's bugloss, is an annual plant endemic to southern Lebanon, southern Syria, Israel and Jordan, of the Boraginaceae family, and which, like other herbaceous flowering plants of the same genus, derives its name from the style's resemblance to the forked-tongue of a serpent during the flower's pistillate-stage of development.
The plant grows in shrub lands, but also appears in deserts. In Ottoman Palestine, the flower's pollen was harvested by honey bees in the production of honey.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
