An erect usually sparsely branched annual up to 40 cm tall. Stem and branches covered with appressed to subappressed hairs. Basal leaves spathulate to ± oblanceolate, petiolate, including petiole 12-40 x 4-12 mm, covered on both surfaces with sub-appressed hairs. Upper leaves sessile. Pedicels very short to obsolete, 3-8 mm and ± recurved in fruit. Calyx lobes c. 1.5 mm long, hairy. Corolla blue or deeply so, with a white or yellow eye; tube 2.5-3 mm long. Nutlets c. 2 mm ovoid, minutely verrucate-tuberculate; margin ± indistinct, sometimes with few glochidiate appendages. Style slender, exceeding nutlets.

Fl. Per.: April-May.

Type: Sinai, Aucher 118 & 2289 (G).

Distribution: Sinai, Iraq, Iran, Caucasus, Afghanistan, Soviet C. Asia, Pakistan.

Fairly distinct from our other species on account of the nutlets with an indistinct margin and surface which is minutely tuberculate-verrucose.