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  • A few kilometers outside the Park and summit area, congenerics found include the legume Adenocarpus foliosus, the bugloss Echium virescens and the daisy Argynantemum frutescens. Teide National Park, Spain
  • Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • Some are of opinion that all raw herbs and salads breed melancholy blood, except bugloss and lettuce. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Now add bright blue Brunnera macrophyylla (Siberian bugloss), yellowish-green lady's mantle, and Geranium x magnificum.
  • Suitable for the less formal border are foxglove, cranesbill, and viper's bugloss.
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  • [3] Lit. "enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet," a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye. The Economist
  • My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell. Times, Sunday Times
  • The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora. Teide National Park, Spain
  • Into view comes an express steam locomotive pulling a long rake of timber carriages between the clumps of sea kale and viper's bugloss. Railway Light
  • Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye. Oeconomicus
  • Other Canary Island endemics are shrubby scabious Pterocephalus lasiospermus, Teide daisy Argynanthemum teneriffae, red bugloss Echium wildpretti, flixweed Descurainia bourgeauana and D. lemsii, Canary Island wallflower Erisimon scoparius and Canary Island wall lettuce Tolpis webbii. Teide National Park, Spain
  • A series of footpaths lead through bluebells, bugloss and other seaside flowers and birdwatchers flock to the cliff edges to watch migration and movements during the ebb and flow of the tide.
  • South African relatives of viper's bugloss, anchusas bring much needed blue color to summer borders.
  • Crato (consil. 21. lib. 2) speaks against all herbs and worts, except bugloss, fennel, parsley, dill, bawm, succory.
  • Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Viper's Bugloss is called botanically _Echium_, having been formerly considered antidotal to the bite of (_Echis_) a viper: and its seed was thought to resemble the reptile's head: wherefore such a curative virtue became attributed to it after the doctrine of signatures. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Viper's bugloss was introduced from Europe in colonial times.
  • Borage and bugloss, sovereign herbs against melancholy; their wines and juice most excellent Anatomy of Melancholy
  • After a purge, 3 or 4 grains of bezoar stone, and 3 grains of ambergris, drunk or taken in borage or bugloss water, in which gold hot hath been quenched, will do much good, and the purge shall diminish less (the heart so refreshed) of the strength and substance of the body. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And it was declared of the herb by another ancient author: _Vinum potatum quo sit macerata buglossa moerorum cerebri dicunt auferre periti_: -- Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Flowers: suitable for the less formal border are harebell, foxglove, ox-eye daisy, toadflax, alpine, autumn and field gentians, cranesbill, forget-me-not, and viper's bugloss.
  • June come pinks of all sorts, specially the blushpink; roses of all kinds, except the musk, which comes later; honeysuckles; strawberries; bugloss; columbine; the French marigold, flos The Essays
  • Other Canary Island endemics are shrubby scabious Pterocephalus lasiospermus, Teide daisy Argynanthemum teneriffae, red bugloss Echium wildpretti, flixweed Descurainia bourgeauana and D. lemsii, Canary Island wallflower Erisimon scoparius and Canary Island wall lettuce Tolpis webbii. Teide National Park, Spain
  • Flowers range from peonies, delphiniums, various brooms and gorses, mallows, asters and periwinkle through to buglosses, mandrake, daises, narcissi, irises and orchids.
  • Common bugloss has fleshy, hairy leaves that grow smaller in size towards the top of the stem.
  • The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora. Teide National Park, Spain
  • Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye. Oeconomicus
  • On the picnic table, Angela had arranged a vase of wildflowers picked by the road, which she now identified for me: viper's bugloss, butter-and-eggs, oxeye daisy.

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