Bugloss Explained

Bugloss is a name (from Greek βούγλωσσον, boúglōsson, "ox-tongue") used for several plants in the borage family (Boraginaceae):

• Barrelier's bugloss (Cynoglottis barrelieri)
• Bugloss or small bugloss (Anchusa arvensis)
• Bugloss fiddleneck (Amsinckia lycopsoides)
• Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis)
• Cretan viper's bugloss (Echium creticum)
• Dyers' bugloss (Alcanna tinctoria)
• Giant viper's bugloss (Echium pininana)
• Italian Bugloss (Anchusa azurea)
• Mount Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii)
• Purple viper's bugloss (Echium plantagineum)
• Siberian bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla)
• Strigose bugloss (Anchusa strigosa)
• Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare)

Bugloss is part of the name of an insect:

• The viper's bugloss (Hadena irregularis), a noctuid moth in the tribe Hadenini, whose caterpillar feeds on viper's bugloss and related plants

Bugloss may also be:

• Bugloss (French: Buglosse), the 28th day of the month of Floréal in the French Republican calendar
• Viper and Bugloss, characters created by columnist Peter Simple: see List of Peter Simple's characters
• , a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy