Centaurea hyssopifolia, Vahl

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 : 296

198. C. hyssopifolia Vahl , Symb. Bot. 1: 75 (1790).

Perennial. Stems 10-30 cm, slender, erect, numerous, branched from the base. Leaves scabrid-puberulent, linear-lanceolate to linear, mucronate, entire. Capitula numerous, corymbose. Involucre 15-16 x 6-8 mm, ovoid-cylindrical; bracts conspicuously veined, tomentose; appendages 3-6 mm, linear, not covering bracts, pale brown, with recurved apex, remotely pectinate-fimbriate, the fimbriae plumose. Florets pink, the outer slightly radiate. Achenes c. 4 mm; pappus 2 mm. Dry or saline bare soils. • S. C. & S.E. Spain. Hs.