Urospermum 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 : 308

157. Urospermum Scop. 1

Annual to perennial herbs. Stems solitary, sparingly branched. Leaves entire to pinnatifid. Capitula few, large. Involucral bracts 7-8, in 1 row, connate at base, some with pale margins.

Receptacle without scales. Ligules yellow, sometimes striped with red. Achenes beaked; pappus of 2 rows of plumose hairs.

Involucral bracts lanceolate, subacute, softly hairy; pappus pale reddish-brown 1. dalechampii

Involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, spinulose; pappus white 2. picroides