Bristly to touch - viper's bugloss
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Honey-bee on viper's bugloss.
From far away the plant may be taken for a bellflower because of its flowers, but its leaves and stems are quite prickly to touch; on picking the viper’s bugloss (Echium vulgare) to put in a vase one must be careful about where to put one’s fingers so as not to get hurt. Just now the bugloss has grown tall, and is eye-catching on waste lands and in dry meadows and fields. Its beautiful blue flowers – they may occasionally also be white or pink – go on flowering until August.
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