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Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Lvs alternate, usually hispid, less commonly villous. Infl. an axillary or terminal cyme, bracteate. Calyx 5-lobed, usually deeply so. Corolla tube straight or curved; limb rotate or campanulate, usually purple or blue, uncommonly white or yellow; throat with 5 ovate or oblong, papillose or hairy scales. Stamens included or slightly exserted. Style included; stigma capitate. Nutlets variously shaped, erect or oblique, reticulate, rugose or tuberculate, with thickened collar at base.
Cor funnelform or salverform, the throat often poorly defined, not much if at all longer than the ± spreading, equal or unequal, apically rounded lobes; nutlets with a stipe-like basal attachment that fits into a pit in the otherwise flattish receptacle, the basal margin of the nutlet forming a prominent thickened rim; leafy herbs, often pungently hairy, the blue fls borne in terminal, helicoid, bracteate false racemes with persistently erect or ascending pedicels. (Lycopsis) 40, Old World.
