Cirsium carniolicum, 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 : 239

39. C. carniolicum Scop. , Fl. Carn. ed. 2, 2: 128 (1772).

Perennial (30-)60-100(-120) cm, villous, with long reddishbrown, flexuous hairs. Stem usually sparingly branched towards the apex. Leaves herbaceous, flat, often shortly decurrent, broadly ovate to elliptical, lobed (rarely lobed only at the base); lobes broadly triangular, dentate, with weak spines 2-8 mm. Capitula in apical clusters of 2-7 or solitary and shortly pedunculate, subtended by narrowly lanceolate leaves with reddish-brown long-spinose fimbriae. Involucral bracts with patent, weakly spiny apex, the vittae absent or very indistinct. Corolla 17-21 mm, pale yellow. Achenes 5-7 mm; pappus 14-21 mm. Grassland and scrub; calcicele. • E. Alps; W. & C. Pyrenees. Au Ga Hs It Ju.