Leontodon hirtus, L.

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 : 314

18. L. hirtus L. , Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1194 (1759)

(L. villarsii (Willd.) Loisel. ).

Perennial with an oblique or vertical, truncate stock. Stems 1-several, 10-30 cm, with short, rigid simple eglandular or 2- to 4-fid hairs; bracts 0-2. Leaves 15-70 x 3-12 mm, regularly pinnatisect with narrow lateral lobes and small terminal lobe, with few to numerous, sometimes dense, long, more or less rigid hairs thickened at the base and minutely 2-fid at the apex. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 9-15 x 5-10 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with few to numerous simple eglandular or minutely 2-fid hairs. Ligules pale yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 5-8 mm, brown, narrowed above or shortly beaked, transversely muricate; pappus of 2 rows of plumose hairs or the outer scabrid. 2n = 8. • Italy, S. France. Ga It.