MYN / Marko Masterl / Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) in flower with solitary bee (Panurgus sp), Slovenia, Europe, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Niall Benvie / Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) on white background, Scotland, UK, June meetyourneighbours.net project

Juan Carlos Munoz / Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) flowering in an olive grove. Sierra de Andujar Natural Park, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain, April 2010

Colin Varndell / Water Forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides) in flower. Kingcombe Meadows nature reserve, Dorset, England, UK, June

Edwin Giesbers / Borage (Borago officinalis) flowers, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Edwin Giesbers / Borage (Borago officinalis) flower backlit, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Niall Benvie / Alpine Forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) in flower, Scotland, UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Narrow leaved bugloss (Echium angustifolium) and Harestail grass (Lagurus ovatus) Mochlos, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Narrow leaved bugloss (Echium angustifolium) and Harestail grass (Lagurus ovatus) Mochlos, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Large blue alkanet (Anchusa azurea) in flower with an Escher's blue butterfly (Polyommatus escheri) Stenje region, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009, dead insects and plants placed directl...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Black veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) feeding on Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) Lagadin region, Lake Ohrid, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Clouded yellow butterfly (Colias croceus) feeding on Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) Lagadin region, Lake Ohrid, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Narrow leaved bugloss (Echium angustifolium) in flower and Harestail grass (Lagurus ovatus) Mochlos, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / Pride of Maderia (Echium candicans) in flower, Madeira, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / Pride of Maderia (Echium candicans) flowers, Madeira, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / Pride of Maderia (Echium candicans) flowers, Madeira, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) flowers, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Flowering Buttercups (Ranunculus breyninus) and Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) with the Grauspitz (2,599m) in the distance, the highest mountain in Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) in flower, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzó / Red giant tajinaste / Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) flowers, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzó / Red giant tajinaste / Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) flowers, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzó / Red giant tajinaste / Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) flowers, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzón / Red giant tajinaste / Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) flowering, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Wothe / Copper butterfly (Lycaena sp) on Forget-me-not (Myosotis sp) Poloniny National Park, East Slovakia, Europe, June 2008

Juan Manuel Borrero / Borage (Borago officinalis) flowers, Barcelona Province, Spain, May

Juan Manuel Borrero / Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) flowers, Barcelona Province, Spain, May

Juan Manuel Borrero / Borage (Borago officinalis) flowers, Barcelona Province, Spain, April

Ann & Steve Toon / Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens) growing in late summer, Northumberland, UK, September

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Viper's bugloss flower (Echium vulgare) North Velebit National Park, Velebit Nature Park, Rewilding Europe area, Velebit mountains, Croatia

Alex Hyde / King of the Alps (Eritrichium nanum) growing on mountain ridge at 3000 metres altitude in Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Alex Hyde / King of the Alps (Eritrichium nanum) growing on mountainside, Aosta Valley, Monte Rosa Massif, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Alex Hyde / King of the Alps (Eritrichium nanum) growing on mountainside. Aosta Valley, Monte Rosa Massif, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Alex Hyde / King of the Alps (Eritrichium nanum) growing on mountainside in Aosta Valley, Monte Rosa Massif, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Purple Viper's bugloss (Echium plantagineum) North Velebit National Park, Velebit Nature Park, Dalmatian coast, Adriatic sea, Croatia

Alex Hyde / Wood Forget-Me-Not (Mysotis sylvatica), UK. April

Ernie Janes / Forget-me not (Myosotis asiatica) in flower, UK, April.

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Borage (Borago officinalis) flower in conservation margin at RSPB's Hope Farm, Cambridgeshire, UK. May

Adrian Davies / Flowers on beach, including Red valerian (Centranthus ruber) Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) Sea mayweed (Matricaria maritima) Sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias) Sea carrot (Daucus carota) Slapton, Devo...

Adrian Davies / Flowers on beach, including Red valerian (Centranthus ruber) Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) Sea mayweed (Matricaria maritima) Sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias) Sea carrot (Daucus carota) Slapton, Devo...

Laurie Campbell / Oyster plant (Mertensia maritima) flowering on shingle beach, Morayshire, Scotland, June

Kerstin Hinze / Purple gromwell (Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum) in flower, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany,

Adrian Davies / Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) flowers, UK

Robert Thompson / Forget me not flowers (Eritrichium nanum) Apennine Mountains, Italy, May

Kerstin Hinze / Large blue alkanet / Italian bugloss (Anchusa azurea) Europe, June

Philippe Clement / Common Comfrey / Quaker Comfrey / Boneset / Knitbone (Symphytum officinale) in flower. Belgium, May.

Philippe Clement / Common Comfrey / Quaker Comfrey / Boneset / Knitbone (Symphytum officinale) in flower. Belgium, May.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) flowering on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, June

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) flowering on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, June

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) flowering on managed grassland, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, June

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Bee visiting flower of Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) on managed grassland, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, June

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Bee visiting flower of Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) on managed grazing land, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK, June.

Stephen Dalton / Purple Gromwell (Buglossoides / Lithospermum purpurocaerulea) in flower. Umbria, Italy.

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Alpine Forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) in flower. Tatra Mountains National Park, the Carpathians, Poland, June.

Gary K. Smith / Comfrey (Symphytum ibericum) 'Hidcote Blue' in flower. Norfolk, England, April.

Ernie Janes / Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens) flowers, UK

Robert Thompson / Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) growing through leaf litter. Plitvice National Park, Croatia, May 2010.

Adrian Davies / Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) in flower. UK, April.

Adrian Davies / Common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) in flower. UK, April.

Pete Oxford / Sea Lavender (Tournefortia gnaphalodes) on the coast of Pez Maya. Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

Kevin Schafer / Pride of Madeira (Echium fastuosum) flower, endemic to Madeira, Portugal

Nick Upton / Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) clump growing on karst limestone mountain scree slope at 1550m in the Julian Alps, Triglav National Park, Slovenia, July.

Nick Upton / Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) flowering on karst limestone mountain scree slope at 1550m in the Julian Alps with Cumulo nimbus clouds forming above 2864m Mount Triglav in the background, Triglav Na...

Florian Möllers / Forget-me-not flowers (Myosotis sp) Germany.

Nick Upton / Common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) flowering in a hay meadow. Gloucestershire, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) flowering in a hay meadow. Gloucestershire, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Scarlet Tiger Moth caterpillar (Callimorpha dominula) feeding on Common Comfrey leaf (Symphytum officinale) Wiltshire, UK, April.

Colin Varndell / Viper's buglos (Echium vulgare) single spike in flower. Porland, Dorset, UK, June

Guy Edwardes / Borage (Borago officinalis) flowering in field, Pienza, Tuscany, Italy

Edwin Giesbers / Blue hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum creticum) flowers, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Edwin Giesbers / Borage (Borago officinalis) flower and seed heads backlit, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Edwin Giesbers / Borage (Borago officinalis) flower and seed heads backlit, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Vincent Grafhorst / Borage (Boraginaceae) flowering against Drakensberg Mountains, Royal Natal National Park, South Africa

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Land Iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) feeding on beach Heliotrope (Heliotropium sp), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Vegetarian Finch (Platyspiza crassirostris) feeding on nectar-rich base of Cordia (Cordia lutea) flowers, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Stephen Dalton / Water forget me not (Myosotis scorpioides) flowers, UK

Paul Harcourt Davies / Apennine houndstongue (Cynoglossum apenninum / magellense) a plant of screes and short turf in the mountains of central Italy, Apennines, Italy

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans), an introduced garden species, flowering along the coast, Big Sur, California

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans) flowering, Big Sur, California

Philippe Clement / Close up view of Borage / Starflower (Borago officinalis) Belgium

Michael Durham / Blue Damselfly (Argia vivida) resting on Salt Heliotrope (Heliotropium curassavicum), central Washington

Inaki Relanzon / Borage (Borago officinalis) in flower, Catalonia, Spain. April

Robert Thompson / Oysterplant {Mertensia maritima} Tullagh Point, Malin Peninsula, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, July

Robert Thompson / Oysterplant {Mertensia maritima} growing through stones on beach, Tullagh Point, Malin Peninsula, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, July

Robert Thompson / Oysterplant {Mertensia maritima} Tullagh Point, Malin Peninsula, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Narrow leaved bugloss (Echium angustifolium) close-up of flower, Mochlos, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Narrow leaved bugloss (Echium angustifolium) in flower, Limassol, Cyprus, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Black veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) feeding on Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) Lagadin region, Lake Ohrid, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Common poppies (Papaver rhoeas) amongst meadow plants along roadside, Lagadin village region, east shore Lake Ohrid, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Narrow leaved bugloss (Echium angustifolium) and Harestail grass (Lagurus ovatus) Mochlos, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / Pride of Maderia (Echium candicans) flower, Madeira, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / Pride of Maderia (Echium candicans) flower, Madeira, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / Pride of Maderia (Echium candicans) flower, Madeira, March 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) flowers in a meadow, stormy sky, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis asiatica) flowers, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzó / Close-up of Red giant tajinaste / Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) flowers, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzó / Red giant tajinaste / Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) flowers, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 2009