Common name:
Small bugloss
Family:
Scientific name:
Anchusa arvensis
Main flower color:
Range:
England, especially the southeast; also parts of Wales and Scotland
Height:
Up to 50 cm
Habitat:
Disturbed ground, often in sandy and/or calcareous locations
Flowers:
Around 6 mm in diameter; a curved, whitish, tubular corolla opening to five blue lobes, contained within a bristly calyx deeply divided into five narrow, pointed teeth. Flowers form in compact clusters at the top of the stem
Leaves:
Narrow, oblong to lanceolate, up to 15 cm in length, covered, like the stems and bracts, with bristly, bulbous-based hairs. Upper leaves are clasping, those lower down are stalked
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
