amily:

Boraginaceae

Habitat:

Ruderal meadow, garigue, in wasteland or along roadsides

Growth habit:

herbaceous

Plant size:

20 - 60 cm tall

Flower colour:

vviolet with dark veins

Flowering time

April - July

Leaf characteristics:

ulower leaves are 5 - 15 cm long, arranged in a rosette, lanceolate, long-stalked, stem leaves are alternate and stalkless

Flower characteristics:

Flowers in racemose inflorescences, leafless, short-stalked, corolla with 5 rounded lobes and short-tubular, tube with 5 pharyngeal scales, calyx 6 - 8 cm long, five-parted almost to the base, with elongated blunt tips

Fruits:

Nut fruit

Special features:

The plant is a biennial with dense white hairs. The stem branches upwards and is erect. The plant's four flat nutlets are 5 - 7 cm long and have barbed spines.