Hormuzakia aggregata
Name: Hormuzakia is from Constantin Freiherr von Hormuzaki a prominent Austro-Romanian naturalist, aggregata means to cluster.
English: Massed alkanet.
Region: Mediterranean woodlands, shrublands, shrub-steppes and deserts of Sicily, North East Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, Libya, Algeria, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Rhodes, Saudi Arabia and the East Aegean Islands.
Botany: short-lived herb; ± 30 cm high, with ascending hispid stems; leaves entire, alternate, linear to lanceolate; flowers small, dark blue to violet, flowering from January to April; fruit a nutlets
Content: anchusin; alkannin, an antioxidant with antimicrobial effect against Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis; alkanet red, a red-brown resinoid pigment.
Use: wound healing, antitumor, and antithrombotic properties.