Common Name: blueweed, viper's bugloss, blue devilScientific Name: Echium vulgare L.Family Name: Boraginaceae - Borage FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced biennial, reproducing by seed Stemsupright, branched, hairy with spiny bristles, red spotted Leavesalternate, narrow oblong to oblanceolate, hairy, margins entire, rosette and along stem Flowers5-petaled, blue, petals fused below forming funnel, upper petal larger and hood-like, stamens conspicuously project, red filaments; axillary