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Echium tuberculatum

Echium tuberculatum
Photo: Carlos Guilherme Rodrigues, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
Iberian Pen., N. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Echium tuberculatum is a species of flowering plant native to Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and Libya in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa respectively. This plant is a hardy garden perennial and it forms a sprawling mass of red flowers during the whole of the summer.

It will self-seed readily.

Other Echium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echium tuberculatum 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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