Daucus aureus, Desf.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 373

5. D. aureus Desf. , FZ. Atl. 1: 242 (1798).

Annual or biennial; stems 15-60 cm, branched, scabrid, with sparse, patent hairs or subglabrous. Leaves 3-pinnate, the lobes lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute. Rays numerous, slightly unequal. Bracts shorter than rays, deflexed, pinnatisect, the lobes setaceous; bracteoles usually 3-sect, rarely entire, linear. Petals white, becoming yellowish after anthesis, the outer radiate. Fruit 4-6 mm; spines on secondary ridges slightly dilated at base but not usually confluent. Cultivated fields. E. & S. Spain, Italy, Sicilia. Hs It Si [Ga].