Hyoscyamus aureus, 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 : 195

4. H. aureus L. , Sp. Pl. 180 (1753) .

Viscid, glandular-villous biennial to perennial; stems decumbent or pendent, weak, brittle. Leaves up to 6 x 5 cm, ovate to suborbicular, broadly cuneate to cordate at base, irregularly lobed and dentate or doubly dentate, densely glandular-villous; petiole c. (0-5-)2- 3 cm. Flowers in lax, few-flowered racemes; pedicels short; bracts leaf-like. Calyx 1 -5-2 cm, densely villous below, less so above; teeth triangular, acute; fruiting calyx up to 3 cm, infundibuliform, with triangular, acuminate, pungent teeth and brownish indumentum. Corolla up to 4- 5 cm, 2-5 cm in diameter, infundibuliform, strongly zygomorphic, golden yellow with purplish throat. Stamens and style long-exserted. Kriti; probably naturalized. [*Cr.] (S.W. Asia.)