Echium angustifolium
Echium angustifolium
Agres
Densely whitish-setose, usually perennial with woody stock. Stems 1-several, 13-60 cm, ± densely hispid setose, setae usually strictly patent. Leaves narrowly linear, lanceolate, oblong or narrowly elliptic; basal usually shrivelled at anthesis. Inflorescence of few to numerous cymes which are very dense at first and become lax and straightened in fruit. Corolla blue, purplish, mauve or reddish, 13-18 mm, ± broadly infundibular, tube evenly setose. Anthers ± long exserted. Style bifid for c. 1 mm. Nutlets c. 2·5 x 2 mm, oblong-bipyramidal with broad shoulders and acute incurved beak, coarsely rugose-tuberculate. Fl. 3-8. Coastal dunes, sandy slopes, banks, macchie, scrub, steppe, s.I.-870 m.
