NOUN
- a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
How To Use viper's bugloss In A Sentence
- Suitable for the less formal border are foxglove, cranesbill, and viper's bugloss.
- 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
- South African relatives of viper's bugloss, anchusas bring much needed blue color to summer borders.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
