Androsace maxima, 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 : 21

1. A. maxima L. , Sp. Pl. 141 (1753)

( A. turczaninowii Freyn ).

Annual. Leaves 6-30 x 3-11 mm, ovate, obovate or oblonglanceolate, sessile or very shortly petiolate, dentate, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Scapes 1-several, 3-15 cm, with short, glandular and eglandular patent hairs. Inflorescence many-flowered; involucral bracts 6-1 2x2-7 mm, ovate, obovate or oblonglanceolate, connate at the base. Pedicels equal to or shorter than bracts, elongating in fruit. Calyx 8-10 mm, more or less densely hairy, accrescent. Corolla c. 6 mm, white or pink, shorter than the calyx. Dry open habitats; somewhat calcicole. Europe, northwards to c. 50° N. in W. Germany and to c. 55° N. in E. Russia. Au Bu Cz Ga Ge G r He Hs Hu It Ju?Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Tu.