Purple Viper’s-bugloss or Paterson’s Curse
Echium plantagineum
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- Type: Flowering Plant
- Family: Boraginaceae
- Genus: Echium
- Species: plantagineum
- Colour: Purple
- Habitat: Maritime
- Habitat: Sand Dunes
- Habitat: Scrubland
- Habitat: Waysides
- Site:Crete
- Site:Kissamos
- Month:April
- Photographer:RKS