Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 139 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Anglia, Italia."

Black, J.M. (1911), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 35: 3 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 477 [secondary reference]

Meadly, G.R.W. (1956), Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia ser. 3 5: 549-552 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 719 [secondary reference]

Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1965), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 3: lxii [secondary reference]

Piggin, C.M. (28 September 1977), The Herbaceous Species of Echium (Boraginaceae) naturalized in Australia. Muelleria 3(4): 216-217 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 89 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 398-399 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Italian Bugloss [n/a]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Echium plantagineum L. legitimate by Meadly, G.R.W. (1956), Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia ser. 3 5: 549-552

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Echium plantagineum L. legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1965), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 3: lxii

---