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Robust, ½-1 m. Leaves lanceolate-spathulate, deeply pinnatisect, 20-50 by 2½-6 cm (incl. the long petiole), sparsely long-hairy. Peduncle and branches distinctly winged, wings ± crisped, on each fork with 3 erect, leafy, linear, 1-12 mm long appendages. Unilateral spikes dense, stalk between the bracts 3-alate, one wing narrow, the others broadening. Large bracteole folded, short-3-lobed, apex on the back with 2-3 teeth, narrow bracteole needle-tipped. Calyx tube 6 mm long, limb entire, fine-plaited, blue, white or rosa, 6-7 mm long.
A herb. It can grow each year from seed or keep growing from year to year. It grows 1 m high. It has long spreading hairs. The leaves are near the base. They are sword shaped. They are 3-10 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. Flowers are in compact spikes of 3-4 flowers. They are cream/blue.
Perennial herb, bearing narrow crisp wings along stem with leaf-like extensions at nodes.. Pinnatifid leaves with alternate rounded lobes.. Compact terminal inflorescences of 3-flowered spikelets.. Calyx 6–7 mm. long.. Wide purple limb, and yellow or pink corolla.
Roughly hairy biennial or perennial, 250-400 mm tall. Leaves mostly basal, lyrate-pinnatifid, ± 90 mm long. Flowers showy, in clusters of 3 or 4 on branchlets arising from a prominently winged axis, corolla white, calyx blue or mauve.
Hairy, perennial shrublet, up to 0.45 m high; stems winged. Flowering time summer?.
