Echium
Genus of flowering plants in the borage family Boraginaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Echium /ˈɛkiəm/[1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae that contains about 70 species and several subspecies.
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Echium | |
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Echium vulgare | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Boraginales |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Subfamily: | Boraginoideae |
Genus: | Echium L. |
Type species | |
Echium vulgare | |
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Species of Echium are native to North Africa, mainland Europe to Central Asia, and the Macaronesian islands where the genus reaches its maximum diversity. Twenty-nine species of Echium are endemic to the Canary, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos.[2] The continental species are herbaceous, whereas many of the endemic species of the Macaronesian islands are woody perennial shrubs.[3]