Lithospermum arvense
Lithospermum arvense
Taşkesen
Sin: Lithospermum officinale
Stems 1-many, 30-90 cm, erect, much-branched, adpressed-pubescent. Leaves all cauline, 3-8 x 1-1,6 cm, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, subsessile, dark green and strigulose above, greyish-pubescent beneath. Inflorescence much-branched. Flowers subsessile at first, fruiting pedicels to 3 mm. Calyx lobes 3,5-5 mm, oblong-linear, obtuse. Corolla 4-5 mm, white, pale yellow or pale greenish; tube ± equalling calyx. Nutlets 2,5-3,5 x 1,7-2 mm, ± ovoid, obscurely keeled ventrally, ivory, glossy. Fl. 5-7. Clearings, field margins, shady banks, 200-2400 m.
Europe, except N.; S.W. & C. Asia eastwards to Siberia and China. Euro-Sib. element.
