Echium arenarium Guss., it is a hispid biennial herb, up to 10-30 cm with many ascending branches mostly with short, erecto-patent setae. Leaves with usually short-appressed setae, Basul leaves 30-60 x 5-15 mm, spathulate, usually long petiolate. Cauline leaves spathulate, elliptic or oblong 30-40 x 4-6 mm; upper most sessile. Bracts oblong to sub cordate, c. 1 cm long. Calyx 5-7 mm at anthesis, elliptic lanceolate, white setose, up to 12 mm in fruit; lobes remaining narrow, 2-3 mm wide at base. Corolla dark blue, with all the stamens included, 6-11 mm long, limb c. 6 mm in diameter, lobes rounded, sparsely hairy outside, narrowly infundibuliform. Nutlets 1.5-2 x 1.5-1.75 mm long, beaked, pyramidal, brown, tuberculate, minutely echinate.
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