Echium vulgare is toxic to horses. The reported severity is critical. Also known as Viper's-Bugloss, Blue-Devil and Viper's Bugloss.
If your animal ate this plant, call your veterinarian, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control on (888) 426-4435 or the Pet Poison Helpline on (855) 764-7661. Fees may apply.
Liver Failure Depression Head Pressing Incoordination Dermatitis Jaundice Weight Loss
The color of each symptom follows the severity scale above.
Echium vulgare, known as viper's bugloss and blueweed, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is native to most of Europe and western and central Asia and it occurs as an introduced species in north-eastern North America, south-western South America and the South and North Island of New Zealand. If eaten, the plant is toxic to horses and cattle through the accumulation of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the liver.
Also recorded as Blue Echium, Blue Thistle, Blueweed, Common Echium, Common Viper's Bugloss and Vipers Bugloss.
More from the Boraginaceae family:
Countries with the most wild observations, from GBIF data.