Echium longifolium Del.

A hispid, annual herb with branched, erect or ascending stems.‎ Indumentum is heterotrichous, of hirsute tubercle-based setae and an ‎under layer of uniformly deflexed hairs.‎ Basal leaves are oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse and attenuate at the ‎base; cauline leaves are linear-lanceolate and sessile.‎ Inflorescence is composed of terminal and axillary cymes. ‎Flowers are bracteate and short-pedicellate, and the corolla is infundibular, red, drying pink or purple and hairy outside.‎ Fruit is an ovoid-tetraquetrous nutlet, aculeate, slightly tuberculate and ‎brownish.

Nile region and Egyptian desert.

Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Arabia.

Sandy desert plains, fields, edges of cultivation.

Annual.

Echium longifolium là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Mồ hôi. Loài này được Delile mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1813.