Hieracium alpinum

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 : 392

158. H. alpinum group. Stems (5—)10—15(—35) cm, with stellate hairs, numerous dark simple eglandular hairs 3-8 mm, and often dark glandular hairs. Leaves with more or less dense, long, pale simple eglandular hairs, few to numerous minute glandular hairs on the margin and sometimes stellate hairs especially beneath; basal 20-100 x 5-15(-20) mm, numerous, the outer small, elliptical, obovate or oblong, obtuse, the remainder lingulate, spathulate or lanceolate, obtuse to acute, entire to deeply dentate, attenuate into a winged petiole; cauline 0-3(-8), lanceolate, linear or bract-like. Capitula usually 1, very rarely 2-3. Involucre (10-)12-20x 7-18 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, with more or less dense simple eglandular hairs 2-5 mm, sometimes with few to numerous glandular hairs, without stellate hairs. Ligules with short simple eglandular hairs on outer surface and at apex. Stigmas usually yellow. 2и = 27. 800-3000 m. N. & C. Europe. Au Br Cz Fe Ga Ge He Is It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, C, W) Su.

Included species:

H. alpinum L. , Sp. Pl. 800 (1753). Au Br Cz Fe Ga Ge He Is It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, C, W) Su.

H. apiculatum Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 20 (Ergänz. 1): 70 (1837). • Carpathians, Sudeten Mts. Cz Po Rm Rs (W).

H. halieri Vili. , Hist. Pl. Dauph. 3: 104 (1788). • Alps. Au Ge He Ju.

H. holosericeum Backh. , Monogr. Brit. Hier. 19 (1856). • Br.

H. melanocephalum Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 11 (Ergänz. 1): 63 (1828). • Au Cz Ga Ge It No Po Rm Rs (W) Su.

H. pseudofritzei Benz & Zahn , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 52: 264 (1902). • E. Alps', Carpathians. Au Cz Po Rm Rs (W).

H. tubulosum Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 20 (Ergänz. 1): 68 (1837). • Sudeten Mts, W. Carpathians. Cz Po.