Echium Vulgare (Noun)
Meaning
A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Echium vulgare, commonly known as viper's bugloss, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae.
- The area was overgrown with weeds, including a patch of tall, coarse echium vulgare with bright blue flowers.
- In the meadow, the delicate purple wildflowers were struggling to compete with the robust growth of echium vulgare.
- After a long hike, we sat down in a field of tall grasses and echium vulgare, watching the sunset over the hills.
- Echium vulgare was listed as a noxious weed in the state, and farmers were encouraged to eradicate it from their fields to prevent it from choking out their crops.