Paterson's curse
শাপমুখী
Echium plantagineum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- —
Boraginaceae
Also called Purple Viper's-bugloss
Formerly Echium alonsoi, Echium bonariense, Echium longistamineum, Echium lycopsis, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia to CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 61 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Bulgarian
- Живовлеково усойниче
- Welsh
- gwiberlys porffor
- German
- Wegerichblättriger Natternkopf
- Finnish
- Piiankieli, ratamoneidonkieli
- Dutch
- Weegbreeslangenkruid
- Russian
- Синяк подорожниковый
- Chinese
- 车前叶蓝蓟
- Bangla
- শাপমুখী
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Echium plantagineum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.