Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum L.
 Description

Perennial with creeping, almost woody, rhizomatous stems from which arise prostrate vegetative shoots and erect flowering shoots;  flowering shoots densely hairy, not branched, to c. 40 cm high.  Lvs sessile, to c. 8 × 1–3 cm, linear-lanceolate or narrow-elliptic, clothed in ± appressed hairs on both surfaces;  apex acute or almost acuminate.  Cymes short, < large leafy bracts.  Calyx divided to base, 6–10 mm long;  lobes linear, densely hairy.  Corolla c. 1–1.75 cm long;  limb 1–1.5 cm diam., purplish or bright blue;  lobes clothed in appressed hairs outside, obtuse. Stamens inserted in upper 1/2 of tube.  Nutlets c. 4 × 3 mm, ovoid, shining, smooth, white.  

[From:  Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Dec.