Leontodon croceus, Haenke

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 : 311

2. L. croceus Haenke in Jacq., Collect. Bot. 2: 16 (1789):

Perennial with horizontal or oblique, truncate stock. Stems 1-3» 5-30 cm, simple, glabrous or with pale and dark simple eglandular hairs near the thickened apex; bracts 2-4. Leaves 25-170 x 3-20 mm, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, entire to denticulate, gradually narrowed to the petiole, glabrous or with sparse hairs beneath. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 10-14 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with numerous dark simple eglandular hairs intermixed with shorter whitish hairs. Ligules orangeyellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 5-6 mm, pale brown or pale chestnut-brown, cylindrical or narrowly fusiform, slightly narrowed at apex, weakly transversely muricate; pappushairs in 1 row, whitish, plumose. • E. Alps, E. & S. Carpathians, mountains of Bulgaria. Au Bu It Ju Rm Rs (W).