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A hairy, erect, unbranched perennial. Ours were growing in the midst of tall grass in an open woodland, 50 cm tall.
Flowers.
Mar-June.
Size.
short-med (10-60 cm)
Flower Blossom.
14-19 mm. Flowers reddish-purple changing to deep, dark blue ("starts red; opens blue"), 5-lobed funnel-shaped, the terminal leafy cymes elongating in fruit.
Leaves.
Lanceolate to narrow-elliptical, long-pointed, dark green.
Habitat.
Woodland margins, scrub, hedges.
Pod.
Nutlets white, shiny.
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