Pieris scaberrima, Guss

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 : 317

8. P. scaberrima Guss , in Ten., FI. Nap. 4, Syll.'. 113 (1830).

Biennial. Stems 30-70 cm, with numerous unequal, rigid hairs. Leaves with numerous unequal, rigid hairs; basal 40-90 x 15-25 mm, narrowly elliptical or lanceolate in outline, pinnatisect with narrow lobes, subpetiolate; cauline similar but smaller. Capitula few, solitary at the ends of long branches. Involucre 9-10 x 6-8 mm; bracts lanceolate, acute, with dense, short tomentum and sometimes a few short, rigid hairs; outer bracts up to half as long as inner. Achenes 5-6 mm, dark brown, strongly transversely muricate, shortly beaked. Dry calcareous places. • 5. Italy, N.W. Jugoslavia (Velebiť). It Ju.