Echium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Boraginales
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Echium
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Echium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Echium
Echium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae that contains about 70 species and several subspecies.
Species of Echium are native to North Africa, mainland Europe to Central Asia, and the Macaronesian islands where the genus reaches its maximum diversity. Twenty-nine species of Echium are endemic to the Canary, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos. The continental species are herbaceous, whereas many of the endemic species of the Macaronesian islands are woody perennial shrubs.
...Echium in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Echiums
- Bulgarian
- Усойниче
- Chinese
- 藍薊屬
- Czech
- hadinec
- Danish
- Slangehovedslægten
- English
- Viper's-buglosses
- English
- Echium candicans x pininana
- Estonian
- ussikeeled
- Finnish
- neidonkielet
- French
- Vipérine
- German
- Natternköpfe
- Hebrew
- עכנאי
- Hungarian
- kígyószisz
- Japanese
- シャゼンムラサキ属
- Modern Greek
- Έχιο
- Polish
- Żmijowiec
- Russian
- Синяк
- Slovene
- gadovec
- Swedish
- snokörter
- Ukrainian
- Синяк
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Echium acanthocarpum
- Echium aculeatum
- Echium albicans
- Echium amoenum
- Echium anchusoides
- Echium angustifolium
- Echium arenarium
- Echium asperrimum
- Echium auberianum
- Echium bethencourtii
- Echium boissieri
- Echium bonnetii
- Echium brevirame
- Echium callithyrsum
- Echium candicans
- Echium canum
- Echium clandestinum
- Echium creticum
- Echium decaisnei
- Echium flavum
- Echium gaditanum
- Echium giganteum
- Echium glomeratum
- Echium handiense
- Echium hierrense
- Echium horridum
- Echium humile
- Echium hypertropicum
- Echium italicum
- Echium judaeum
- Echium khuzistanicum
- Echium leucophaeum
- Echium longifolium
- Echium lusitanicum
- Echium modestum
- Echium montenielluense
- Echium nervosum
- Echium onosmifolium
- Echium orientale
- Echium pabotii
- Echium parviflorum
- Echium perezii
- Echium petiolatum
- Echium pininana
- Echium pitardii
- Echium plantagineum
- Echium portosanctense
- Echium rauwolfii
- Echium rosulatum
- Echium rubrum
- Echium sabulicola
- Echium salmanticum
- Echium simplex
- Echium spurium
- Echium stenosiphon
- Echium strictum
- Echium suffruticosum
- Echium sventenii
- Echium tenue
- Echium thyrsiflorum
- Echium triste
- Echium trygorrhizum
- Echium tuberculatum
- Echium velutinum
- Echium virescens
- Echium vulcanorum
- Echium vulgare
- Echium webbii
- Echium wildpretii
- Echium × bond-spraguei
- Echium × lemsii
- Echium × lidii
- Echium × taibiquense
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