Verbascum purpureum, (Janka) Huber-Morath

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 : 208

3. V. purpureum (Janka) Huber-Morath , Neue Denkschr. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 87: 125 (1971)

( V. glanduligerum Velen. ).

Biennial; stem up to 100 cm, appressed-pubescent. Basal leaves 10-25 x 2-7 cm, oblong-lanceolate, incise-dentate to pinnatisect with linear-oblong lobes, petiolate, glabrescent above, arachnoidtomentose beneath. Inflorescence branched, lax. Bracts 10- 15 mm, lanceolate; bracteoles present; pedicels 1-3 mm. Calyx 4-6 mm; lobes lanceolate, acute. Corolla 20-30 mm in diameter. Stamens 5; anthers all reniform; filament-hairs pale yellow. Capsule 4-5 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid. • E. Bulgaria, extending to S.E. Romania and Turkey-in-Europe. Bu Rm Tu.