Echium rauwolfii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae,[3] whose native range is North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula.

[4] Delile's protologue (in French) describes it thus:[2] "The bark of the root is pink and thin; the stem is straight and branching, 6 decimeters high (2 feet): the radical leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 8 to 16 cm long (3 to 6 inches), narrowed in petiole; the lower branches emerge from the axils of oval-inverted leaves, i a little like a spoon; the upper leaves are linear-oblong, not narrowed in petiole: the stem and twigs are divided into long slender spikes, which successively bear more than thirty to forty flowers.

The stamen filaments are thickened at their base, long like the corolla, brought together with style towards the side of the tube where the blade is more elongated.

The fruit has four ovoid seeds, triquetrous (triangular in cross-section and sharply angled), white or grey, smooth and shiny.

The specific epithet, rauwolfii (originally rawolfii) honours Leonhard Rauwolf whom Delile credits with giving a very much earlier description contained in Johann Friedrich Gronovius's, Flora orientalis sive Recensio Plantarum quas Botanicorum Coryphaeus Leonhardus Rauwolffus… observavit, et collegit.