Echium albicans

English: White-leaved Bugloss
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Español: Viborera blanca - Viborera andaluza
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Family: Boraginaceae - Borage family
Flowering time: April-August
Height: 20-70cm
Altitude: 100-2500m
Colour: red, violet, purple
Flower: corolla 15-26 mm with protruding stamens
Leaves: from linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate with numerous hairs
Habitat: sandy and open areas, rocky dolomite, limestone slopes
Distribution: endemic of Andalusian mountains






Notes: The numerous hairs give Echium albicans a gray or white shade. Colours of the flowers range from pink to bright red and from violet to purple, depending on age and degree of withering. White-leaved Bugloss can invade roadsides of gravelly mountain roads and forest tracks in Andalusia.

Related key words: PR-A 19 Cuesta del Desmayo, PR-A 21 Arenales del Trevenque, Cumbres Verdes, Jardín botánico Hoya de Pedraza, Jardín botánico de la Cortijuela, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Tejada, Almijara, Sierra de Cázulas, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Serranía de Ronda, Málaga, Andalucía, Andalusië, Spain