Anchusa azurea, Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 108

11. A. azurea Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 9 (1768)

( A. italica Retz. ).

Perennial, hispid with dense, patent, rigid or soft, often tubercle-based hairs; stems 20-150 cm, erect. Leaves (50-)100- 300 x(10-) 15-50 mm. Cymes many; pedicels 1-3 mm, up to 10(—15) mm in fruit; bracts shorter than calyx. Calyx 6-8 (-10) mm, up to 18 mm in fruit, divided almost to the base into linear, acute lobes. Corolla violet or deep blue; tube 6-10 mm, slightly exceeding or shorter than calyx; limb (8—)10—15 mm in diameter; stamens inserted at top of tube, overlapping scales. Nutlets (6-)7-10x2-3 mm, oblong or oblong-obovoid, erect. 5. & S.C. Europe; naturalized further north. Al BI Bu Co Cr Ga G r Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (W, K, E) Sa Si Tu [Au Cz Ge He].