Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) (Nox)

Scientific name:	Echium vulgare L.	Viper's Bugloss plant
Common Name:	Viper’s bugloss
Status:	Regionally Controlled in the Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken, North East, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee and North Central CMAs.
Habitat:	Temperate regions up to elevations of 2,100 metres where it occurs over a wide range of soils but prefers the drier lighter soils (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It is a weed of pastures, roadsides and neglected areas (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Viper’s bugloss invades lowland grassland and grassy woodland and dry sclerophyll forest and woodland (Carr et al 1992).

Viper's Bugloss flower