Anchusa azurea Mill., it is a biennial or perennial hispid herb, with dense spreading or soft, mostly tubercle bases. Stem 30-80 (100) cm, with ascending or branches. Lower leaves petiolate. Upper leaves sessile, linear, lanceolate, entire or slightly dentate, (50-) 100-200 x (10-) 15-50 mm. Cymes many with shortly pediculate flowers. Pedicel up to 12 mm in fruit. Bracts shorter than calyx. foliaceous. Calyx 6-8 mm long, up to 15 (-18) in fruit. divided almost up to the base, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 13-15 mm long, violet or blue, with a limb of (8-)10-15 mm in diameter, with ovate to semi-orbicular lobes scales pediculate, somewhat protruding. Stamens inserted at the top of the tube, overlapping the scales. Nutlets oblong-ovoid, erect, (6-) 7-10 x 2-3 mm, reticulate-rugose, somewhat tuberculate between the rugae.
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