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Item Number: H255

VIPER’S-BUGLOSS (Echium vulgare)

Description:
A European wildflower, native in the UK on light and poor soils. Easy to grow and it self-seeds readily. Old medicinal herb used for headaches, fevers and nervous com-plaints and apparently to treat snake bites! Ht 30cm 35 plants

SOW OUTSIDE in spring and lightly cover with soil. May also be sown in August-September.
GROW in any good garden soil, but it prefers soil which is light and well drained.
SITE in full sun.
MEDICINAL. An infusion of the dried leaves (28gms. to a pint of boiling water), taken in a wine glass several times a day is effective for headaches and the common cold. Because of the spotted stem it is thought to resemble a snake and the seeds are shaped like a snakes head, the plant was traditionally used to treat snake bites. Bugloss is a good Bee plant, like its relative Borage.
CONSERVATION. Bugloss would be an attractive plant to establish in a grass/Wildflower mixture for naturalisation. Howevere, because it is a biennial it might be difficult to establish except on a light rather sandy soil.

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