Anchusa arvensis, (L.) Bieb.

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

22. A. arvensis (L.) Bieb. , Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1: 123 (1808)

( Lycopsis arvensis L. ).

Annual, hispid with mostly tuberclebased hairs; stems 10-60 cm, ascending. Leaves (15—)3O— 100(-150) x (3-)5-20(-25) mm, linear-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, undulate, more or less dentate. Cymes several, short, bracteate throughout; pedicels very short, up to 10 mm in fruit; bracts longer or shorter than calyx. Calyx 4-5 mm, up to 10(-15)mm in fruit, divided almost to the base into linearlanceolate, acute lobes. Corolla blue, rarely whitish; tube 4-7 mm, about equalling calyx, curved; limb 4—6 mm in diameter, with 5 unequal lobes; stamens inserted at or below middle of tube. Nutlets 1-5-2 x 3-4 mm, obliquely ovoid. 2« = 48. M ost o f Europe. Al Au Be BI Br Bu Co Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Gr *Hb He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, K, E) *Sa Si Su [Fa].