Echium vulgare

Vipers Bugloss at Coree, ACT

Echium vulgare at Coree, ACT - 18 Apr 2020 08:26 AM
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Echium vulgare 26 Apr 2020 MichaelMulvaney
Echium vulgare 26 Apr 2020 Sarah2019

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Has prickly hairs on leaves. I think this is an indicator of E. vulgare rather than E. plantagineum

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BettyDonWood wrote:
   26 Apr 2020
The diagnostics for Echium vulgare are that none of the leaves are stem
-clasping and that the flowers have four stamens longer than the flower tube and one stamen shorter than the tube. The hairs on the leaves are, indeed, coarser than those of plantagineum. From the angle you have taken the photo, I cannot see the diagnostics.
   26 Apr 2020
Having chipped out many thousands of both species of Echium, I'm happy to confirm this as vulgare

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