Echiumparviflorum Moench, it is an annual or biennial herb, with several ascending flowering branches, hispid with spreading setae. Basal leaves rosulate, oblong to oblong-spathulate. attenuate at base with sparce to dense appressed setae, 55-120 x 5-25 mm. Cauline leaves ovate to oblong, upper most leaves sessile. Cymes arising in the axils of most, except lowest cauline leaves. Calyx 6-8 mm at anthesis, strongly accrescent, up to 16 mm long in fruit, with 3-6 mm broad lobes at the base, elliptic lanceolate, hispid. Corolla 10-13 mm long, pale or dark blue, densely velutinous outside, limb hardly spreading. All stamens included. Nutlets, c. 2.5 x 2 mm long, broadly pyramidal, bigibbous, coarsely tubercled.
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