Asperugo procumbens, L.

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 : 110

1. A. procumbens L. , Sp. Pl. 138 (1753) .

Hispid; stems up to 70 cm, procumbent or climbing, branched, with stiff, deflexed hairs. Leaves 20-75 mm, lanceolate, subacute to obtuse, entire or slightly dentate, the lower subopposite or verticillate, petiolate, the upper sessile. Corolla 2-3 mm, purplish, becoming dark violet; scales white. Nutlets c. 3 mm, densely and finely tuberculate. 2« = 48. Cultivated fields, waste places and farmyards; nitrophile. N, E. & E.C. Europe; introduced or casual elsewhere. Al Au Bu Cz Da Fe *Ge G r *He Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, K, E) Su Tu [*Ga Ho Hs Sa].