Carthamus glaucus, Bieb.

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 : 302

4. C. glaucus Bieb. , Tabi. Prov. Casp. 118 (1798).

Glandular annual, with lanate-villous and sparsely arachnoid indumentum; stems with brownish to purplish spots. Basal leaves with up to 6 pairs of lobes; cauline leaves broadly to narrowly lanceolate, sinuate to pinnatifid, spinose-dentate, greyish. Capitula 13-15 mm in diameter, ovoid. Outer involucral bracts 2-5-3-8 cm, up to 11 times as long as the inner, more or less erect, densely greyish-villous; inner bracts oblong-lanceolate, entire, without apical appendages. Corolla pinkish-purple, the lobes 4-5~6-5 mm. Achenes 3 -5-4 mm. Pappus of linear, acuminate, ciliate scales 2-21 times as long as the achene. S. Krym. Rs (K). (S. W. Asia, Egypt.)