''Echium webbii'' is a species of flowering plants of the family

Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the orde ...

. It is endemic to the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Mo ...

, where it is restricted to the island of

La Palma La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and officially San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of making it the fifth largest of the eight main Canary Islands. The ...

.Manuel Arechavaleta, S. Rodríguez, Nieves Zurita, A. García (Hrsg.):
Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias. Hongos, plantas y animales terrestres
' (''List of Forest Species of the Canary Islands''). 2009. Gobierno de Canarias, p. 151 The species was first described by

Auguste-Henri de Coincy Auguste-Henri Cornut de la Fontaine de Coincy (1837, Lille – 30 January 1903) was a French botanist. A native of Lille, he received his education at the lycée in Sens. Known for his investigations of flora native to Spain, he was the author of ...

. The specific name ''webbii'' refers to botanist

Philip Barker Webb Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist. Life Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was educated at Harrow ...

. The flowers are normally blue and produced in numerous spikes in early summer, but a hybrid is sometimes seen with white or pink

flower A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism ...

s. It grows to average height , maximum height . The plant is not very tolerant of cold, and in the wild is a shrub. It can be grown in gardens in mild areas, but requires good drainage.

References

webbii Endemic flora of the Canary Islands Flora of La Palma {{Asterid-stub