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Purple Viper's-bugloss

Echium plantagineum

323Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr4
May3
Jun61
Jul128
Aug64
Sep28
Oct23
Nov3
Dec4

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England16
2North Yorkshire England10
3Essex England9
4Cambridgeshire England7
5Suffolk England7
6Cornwall England7
7Somerset England7
8City of Edinburgh Scotland7
9Surrey England6
10Lincolnshire England6
11Worcestershire England6
12Nottinghamshire England6
13Dorset England5
14Gloucestershire England5
15Portsmouth England5
77 England5 Scotland6 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
323
Peak month
July
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Echium plantagineum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
403
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Boraginales
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Echium
Name with authority
Echium plantagineum L.

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159280 · GBIF 2925895