Leadwort
Leadwort is flowering herbaceous plants, subshrubs, or small shrubs growing to 30 to 100 cm tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, usually with a hairy margin. Some of the species are evergreen, others deciduous. The flowers are produced in a compact inflorescence, each flower with a five-lobed corolla; flower colour varies from pale to dark blue to red-purple. The fruit is a small bristly capsule containing a single seed. This genus includes about 8 species. Leadwort is native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa and Asia.