Anchusa leptophylla, Roemer & Schultes

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 : 107

1. A. leptophylla Roemer & Schultes , Syst. Veg. 4: 90 (1819).

Perennial, rarely biennial, more or less greyish with dense, short, soft, appressed, not tubercle-based hairs; stems 40- 70 cm, erect. Leaves 50-100(-200) x 6-13 mm. Cymes short, usually several, crowded; pedicels up to 2 mm in fruit; bracts shorter than calyx. Calyx 5-7 mm, divided to into oblong, obtuse lobes. Corolla purple, becoming blue; tube 6-8 mm, 11-11 times as long as calyx; limb 6-8 mm in diameter, with oblong lobes; scales oblong, obtuse, densely and shortly hairy. Stamens inserted in upper half of tube and not or scarcely overlapping scales. Nutlets c. 2-5 x 3-5 mm, obliquely ovoid. S.E. Europe, from E. Bulgaria to Krym. Bu Rm Rs (W, K).