Family: Boraginaceae Genus: EchiumSpecies description: Erect, hispid biennial (or sometimes perrennial ?) 20-90 cm, with 1 to several flowering stems. Leaves with rather soft, appressed setae; the basal and lower cauline 50-150 x 10-20 mm, elliptical to lanceolate, attenuate and petiolate at base; the upper narrowly lanceolate, sessile. Inflorescence more or less spike-like to panniulate. Calyx 5-7 mm. Corolla 10-19 mm, blue to bluish-violet, with 4-5 long-excerted stamens.
Very variable and requiring further study.
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Habitat:
Distribution: Almost throughout Europe. All except Az Bl Fa Is Rs(n) Sb; casual in some of them. (=> Ho) Found: C.N.Spain: => Noviercas Date: 29-5-94 Flora Europea:3-99 Literatuur:Notes:
Pictures: A.Voswinkel, The Netherlands email: aart@knoware.nl