Echium vulgare Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 139. 1753.

"Habitat in Europa ad vias & agros." RCN: 1126.

Lectotype (Gibbs in Lagascalia 1: 54. 1971): Herb. Linn. No. 191.19 (LINN), see p. 492.

Generitype of Echium Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 128. 1929).

Current name: Echium vulgare L. ( Boraginaceae).

Note: Echium italicum was treated as the generitype of Echium by Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 3: 93. 1913 (see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 370. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 128. 1929) of E. vulgare L.