Buglossoides arvensis
Buglossoides arvensis
Tarla taşkeseni
Stem simple or branched, 8-30 cm in flower, ascending to erect, adpressed to patent-setulose, elongating in fruit. Leaves linear, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 8-45 x 2-12 mm, acute to obtuse, sessile, often slightly discolorous. Inflorescence dense in flower, lax and elongate in fruit. Pedicels 1-3 mm, thickening slightly and elongating to 5 mm in fruit. Calyx 3-4 mm, whitish-setulose, accrescent to 4-8 mm in fruit. Corolla white, pale to dark blue or purplish, infundibular, 5-7 mm; limb 3-4 mm diam. Nutlets 2·5-4 x 1·5-2·5 mm, not markedly bigibbous, tuberculate-rugose, beak suberect, scar to 0·75 mm wide. Fl. 2-6. Limestone slopes, field margins, cornfields, rocky places, fallow fields, steppe etc., nr s.l.-2500 m.
Europe, N. Africa, S.W. & C. Asia. Introduced in E. Asia, N. & S. America, S. Africa and Australasia.
