Leaves acute, with simple indumentum of more or less patent setae; those at the base up to 45 x 5 cm, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually tapering into a short petiole, forming a well-marked rosette; caulinar leaves up to 11 x 2.5 cm, narrowly lanceolate, slightly auriculate or cuneate at the base.

[2] Bracts of 3.5-7 x 0.6-2 mm, generally shorter than the calyx, linear-lanceolate, slightly auriculate at the base.

Calyx with lobes 3-6 x 1-1'5 (-2) mm, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, slightly acrescent and ovate-lanceolate or narrowly ovate in fruiting, subobtuse, with simple short setae indumentum and generally some bi- or tricellular glandular hairs.

[2] Echium salmanticum is an endemic plant found mainly on the Castilian plateau of the dry clayey-calcareous-subnitrophilous meso-supramediterranean floor.

The combination of Echium salmanticum, Carduus granatensis and Verbascum pulverulentum frequently grows on land degraded by man, such as rubble heaps, around fields and in areas close to villages.