Euphrasia salisburgensis, Funck

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 266

41. E. salisburgensis Funck , Bot. Taschenb. 1794: 190 (1794).

Stem up to 20(-25) cm, with 0-7 pairs of slender, erect or patent branches. Cauline internodes up to 3(-4) times as long as the leaves. Lowest flower at node 2—13(—16). Leaves 3—13(—17) mm, usually strongly tinged with purple, glabrous or minutely scabrid, with the teeth distant from the leaf-base and at least the two distal pairs distant from each other; cauline leaves up to 5 mm wide (excluding teeth), cuneate-obovate, to narrowly oblong-ovate, with 1-4 pairs of subacute to aristate teeth; lower floral leaves up to 6-5 mm wide (excluding teeth), broadly obovate to narrowly ovate or trullate, with 1—5(—6) pairs of acute to aristate teeth. Corolla 5-7-5(-8-5) mm, white (rarely purple); lower lip usually rather small. Capsule 4-6-5 mm, 2-3j times as long as wide, oblong to elliptical, truncate to emarginate. 2« = 44. Stony grassland, screes and scrub, usually on basic soils. Mountains o f C. and S. Europe; Fennoscandia; W. Ireland. Al Au?Br Bu Co Cr Cz Fe Ga Ge G r Hb He Hs It Ju No Po Rm Rs (W, K) Su.

Plants from high altitudes or high latitudes are sparsely branched, with a low node of flowering and large, emarginate capsules; in C. & S.E. Europe such plants often have purplish corollas. Plants which also have relatively wide leaves with shallow, obtuse teeth are usually referred in Fennoscandia to E. lapponica T. C. E. Fries , Ark. Bot. Yl(jS)\ 12 (1922) and in C. & S. Europe to E. nivalis G. Beck , Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 33: 225 (1883).

Plants from S.E. Sweden (Gotland) approach 43 in leaf-shape, but the central portion of the leaf is wider and the teeth shorter.