It is a viscid-hairy, stout, erect annual or perennial plant. Lower leaves are lanceolate, pinnatifid; while the upper leaves are sessile. Flowers are with dull purple, dark-veined corolla with broad spreading lobes and tubular-campanulate fruiting calyx with raised veins and spiny recurved teeth.
North Sinai.
Sinai, Palestine, Syria, Turkey.
sandy and calcareous ground.
annual or perennial
Height: c. 50 cm.
