Echium sabulicola

Taxobox
name = "Echium sabulicola"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Sand Viper's Gloss "Echium simplex"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
familia = Boraginaceae
genus = "Echium"
species = "E. sabulicola"
binomial = "Echium sabulicola"
binomial_authority = Pomel, 1874

"Echium sabulicola" (syn. "Echium confusum" Coincy, "Echium maritimum" Willd.; Sand Viper's Gloss) is a plant in the genus "Echium". It is a herbaceous biennial plant and grows up to 70 cm in height and requires plenty of sun and prolong dry periods. It is native to the sandy areas of the coasts of the western Mediterranean region from Spain east to southern France and Italy, including the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily."Flora Europaea": [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Echium&SPECIES_XREF=sabulicola&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= "Echium sabulicola"] ]

The plant requires dry air and exposure to the sun.

The flowers nad its calix forms up to five stems. Zygomorphous corolla of 12–22 mm in width and has five petals. The plant blooms in the end of April and blooms in the autumn months in during its favourable time.

External links

* [http://jquiles.webs.upv.es/botanica/silvestres/Boraginaceae/Echium_sabulicola.htm "Echium sabulicola"] photo
* [http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species-factsheet.jsp?idSpecies=162099&idSpeciesLink=162099 European Environment Agency: "Echium sabulicola"]
*es icon [http://www.afalgaida.org/Flora/EchiumSabulicola.htm Flora d'Algaida: "Echium sabulicola"]