Pontechium maculatum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae.

It is the sole species in genus Pontechium.

It is a biennial native to parts of Europe and western Asia, ranging from Poland and Austria through the Balkans and Ukraine to eastern European Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.

[1] The species was first described as Echium maculatum by Carl Linnaeus in 1759.

In 2000 Böhle & Hilger placed it in its own genus as Pontechium maculatum.