Viper's Bugloss
Echium vulgare
- Flowering period
- June–August
- Nectar
- gut
- Pollen
- mäßig
Viper's Bugloss flowers from June to August and still provides nectar even in heat and drought, when other plants have long dried up. The nectar value is good, the pollen value low to medium, and the blue pollen is easy to spot on the pollen loads. It grows on summer-warm, poor, stony to sandy soils along roadsides, on railway land and fallow ground. Worth noting: honey and pollen can contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
Sources (5)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Gewöhnlicher Natternkopf
- Bienenweidekatalog Baden-Württemberg, Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz mit Universität Hohenheim
- Bienenweidepflanzen für den Hausgarten, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau (LWG) Veitshöchheim
- Bienenweiden, Hortipendium
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments