Verbascum chaixii, Vili.

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 : 216

83. V. chaixii Vili. , Prosp. Pl. Dauph. 22 (1779).

Perennial, more or less greyish-tomentose to -pubescent; stems 50-100 cm. Basal leaves 10-30 x 4-12 cm, ovate-oblong, crenate and sometimes slightly lobed towards the truncate to cuneate base; petiole 5-25 cm. Inflorescence usually branched. Bracts 2-5 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate; longer pedicels 3-6 mm. Calyx 3-5 mm; lobes linear to lanceolate. Stamens 5; anthers all reniform; filament-hairs violet. Capsule 3-6 mm, ellipsoid. S., C. & E. Europe, westwards to N.E. Spain and northwards to S.Poland and C. Russia. Au Bu Cz Ga G r He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Si. 1 Filaments of lower stamens hairy throughout; corolla 20-25 (-30) mm in diameter (c) subsp. orientale 1 Filaments of lower stamens glabrous for a short distance below the anther; corolla 15-22 mm in diameter 2Basal leaves usually slightly lobed towards the base, greyishtomentose beneath; upper cauline leaves remotely dentate (a) subsp. chaixii 2Basal leaves not lobed, green beneath; upper cauline leaves finely crenulate-serrate (b) subsp. austriacum