Centaurea bracteata, Scop.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 290

172. C. bracteata Scop. , Delie. FI. Insubr. 2: 17 (1786)

(C. jacea subsp. bracteata (Scop.) Hayek ).

Perennial. Stems up to 60 cm, caespitose, erect or ascending, shortly and sparingly branched at the middle. Leaves floccose-tomentose or green and sparsely arachnoid-hairy, scabrid; lower petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, undivided, rarely lyrately lobed, denticulate, mucronate; upper lanceolate, subtending the capitula. Capitula solitary. Involucre 14-20 x (12-)14-20 mm, globose or broadly cylindrical; appendages orbicular, covering bracts, convex, scarious, white, sometimes darker, the margin 6-8 mm wide, involute, entire or somewhat lacerate, the apex obtuse. Florets pinkish-orange, the outer radiate. Achenes 3 mm, pale greyish-brown; pappus absent. Dry hillsides. • S. Alps and mountains of N.W. Jugoslavia. Au Ga He It Ju.