Echium flavum Desf. subsp. saetabense (Peris, Figuerola & Stübing) Mateo & M.B.Crespo
Family: BORAGINACEAE
Genus: Echium
Spanish common name: Viborera blanca.
Province distribution: Alacant. València.
General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean (Eastern-Iberian)
Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.
IUCN Category: Endangered
Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Life-forms: Biennial.
Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Forest border. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Perennial grasslands and herbaceous communities on fairly moist calcareous soils, sometimes slightly nitrified or stony, occurring in forest clearings and edges, open scrub, bases of rocky outcrops and slopes, or along field and road margins.
Characteristics: Biennial or perennial plant, taller than wide, covered with white, soft hairs mixed with rigid, somewhat prickly hairs. Stems up to 1 m, solitary, erect, simple or branched toward the apex. Basal leaves up to 15 cm in a dense rosette, cauline leaves smaller. Inflorescence cylindrical and elongated (sometimes occupying more than half of the stem). Corolla whitish, yellowish, or pinkish, with a tube longer than the calyx and protruding stamens, the filaments pink and the anthers bluish.