Viper's bugloss

[Lizzy Liz]

[Viper]’s Bugloss is unusual as it is the name for two entirely different things:
1 A common European plant Echium Vulgare also known as Blueweed, which has rough, hairy leaves and the flowers start off pink but turn blue as they mature;
2 A European [moth] Hadena Irregularis which flies from July to August, believed extinct in the UK due to loss of habitat;
So despite sounding a bit [sinister], it’s just the name of a couple of nature’s minor oddities.