Bothriospermum chinense Bunge

Herbs annual, rarely biennial, 20-30 cm tall, densely spreading or appressed hispid. Stems several, cespitose, erect or ascending, branched above or simple. Basal and lower stem leaves long petiolate, spatulate or oblanceolate, usually 3-6 × 1-1.5 cm, hirsute or appressed pubescent, hairs discoid at base, base attenuate, margin crisped or entire, apex obtuse; middle and upper stem leaves sessile, oblong to narrowly oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm × 5-10 mm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex acute. Inflorescences 5-15 cm; bracts ovate to narrowly ovate. Pedicel 2-3 mm, elongated in fruit. Calyx 2.5-4 mm, spreading hispid and short appressed, pubescent outside; lobes lanceolate, fruiting calyx accrescent, ca. 8 mm wide. Corolla pale blue, 3.5-4 mm; throat appendages trapeziform, slightly 2-cleft at apex; limb 4-5 mm wide; lobes orbicular, ca. 1 mm wide. Stamens inserted ca. 1 mm above base; anthers ovate to oblong, ca. 0.7 mm. Style ca. 1/2 as long as calyx. Nutlets reniform, ca. 2.5 mm, wrinkled, densely tuberculate, aperture transversely elliptic. Fl. Apr-Jun.

Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi.

* Hillside meadows, roadsides; 100-1600 m.

Bothriospermum bicarunculatum Fischer & C. A. Meyer.

Bothriospermum chinense là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Mồ hôi. Loài này được Bunge mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1833.

斑种草（学名：Bothriospermum chinense）是紫草科斑种草属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的山西、甘肃、河北、河南、陕西、山东、辽宁等地，生长于海拔300米至500米的地区，多生长于山坡草丛、荒野路边以及竹林下，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。