Synonyms
Echium rubrum Jacq.; Echium russicum J. F. Gmel.; Echium acutifolium Lehm.; Echium clavatum Willd. ex Lehm.; Echium linearifolium K. Koch
– dzirtsitela, 
– avajua (Meskhetian, Javakhetian) (Makashvili Botany and Ecology
Biennial. Stem usually single, erect, (20)30–60(80) cm high, robust, subangular, not very densely bristly-hairy, glabrous underneath bristles. Leaves numerous, 4–6 cm long, ca. 0.5–1 cm wide, linear or lanceolate, greenish, apex acute, base gradually tapering, both surfaces bristly, the bristles borne on large tubercles. Inflorescence narrowly paniculate, often almost spicate, up to 20–30 cm long, dense rarely subcapitate; cymes 1–3 cm long, white bristly hairy; bracts lanceolate-linear, inconspicuous, not exceeding the length of the flowers. Flowers with calyx sparsely white-bristly, ca. 7 mm long, lobes linear-acute; corolla 12–15 mm long, dark (wine) red,...
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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2016). Echium maculatum L. Boraginaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_29-1
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