Centaurea trichocephala, Bieb. ex Willd.

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

195. C. trichocephala Bieb. ex Willd. , Sp. Pl. 3: 2286 (1803).

Perennial. Stems 40-60 cm, caespitose, numerous, erect, divaricately branched, densely leafy, thickened below the capitulum. Leaves linear to oblong-lanceolate, scabrid; lower entire, denticulate or lobed; upper linear-lanceolate. Capitula subsessile, solitary. Involucre 13-18 x 6-10 mm, ovoid-globose or ovoidcylindrical, lanate; appendages 10 mm or more, pale or dark brown or yellow, attenuate into a narrowly linear-lanceolate, recurved acumen, pectinate-fimbriate, the fimbriae 3 mm, 10-14 on each side, equally spaced. Florets pink or purple, the outer radiate. Achenes c. 4 mm; pappus 1 -5-2 mm. S. part of U.S.S.R., Romania. Rm Rs (C, W, E).