Anchusa L.
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Lvs alternate, usually hispid, less commonly villous. Infl. an axillary or terminal cyme, bracteate. Calyx 5-lobed, usually deeply so. Corolla tube straight or curved; limb rotate or campanulate, usually purple or blue, uncommonly white or yellow; throat with 5 ovate or oblong, papillose or hairy scales. Stamens included or slightly exserted. Style included; stigma capitate. Nutlets variously shaped, erect or oblique, reticulate, rugose or tuberculate, with thickened collar at base.
c. 40-50 spp., mostly Mediterranean. Naturalised sp. 1.
