The flowers start out as pink buds and turn into purply-blue flowers with reddish stamens. The plant is sometimes known as blueweed as it looks very blue from a distance.
Its a native of Europe but has become an introduced pest in some parts of the US.
A seven-spot ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, , [coccinelle à sept points or La Bête à bon Dieu in French] was prowling around looking for aphids.
You can see the bristles are all over the plant. The reddish spots on the stems gave us the viper part of the common name. The plant was thought to be a good remedy for snake bites due to the speckled appearance reminding people of reptile scales.
Bugloss apparently comes from the greek word for ox tongue -a description of the roughness and shape of the leaves
The ladybird sat and groomed itself for a while.
Elsewhere on the plant a spider sat in its web- the black thing looks like a beetle larva,=. , probably another ladybird
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Lovely pictures as always. Really like the info you put with your images. Makes it that much more interesting.
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