Hieracium valdepilosum

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 : 385

117. H. valdepilosum group ( H. prenanthoideslvillosum ). Stems 30-50 cm, with numerous simple eglandular hairs up to 8 mm, and few stellate hairs above. Leaves entire to denticulate, with long simple eglandular hairs; basal few or absent, 50-110 x 10-30 mm, more or less elliptical, usually more or less acute, petiolate; cauline 7-13(-20), the lower like the basal but usually sessile, the median and upper lanceolate to ovate, sometimes panduriform, sessile, more or less amplexicaul. Capitula 1—6(—9); peduncles long, with dense stellate hairs, numerous, long simple eglandular hairs and sometimes a few small glandular hairs. Involucre 10—15(—18) x 10-15 mm; bracts long-acute, the outer often lax, with dense simple eglandular hairs up to 5 mm, sometimes with some stellate and small glandular hairs. Ligules sometimes with short simple eglandular hairs. Stigmas discoloured. • Mountains of C. Europe; C. Appennini. Au Cz Ga Ge He It Ju Rm.

Included species:

H. grabowskianum Naegeli & Peter , Hier. Mittel-Eur. 2: 207 (1886). Cz Rm.

H. porrectum Fries , Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 14: 106 (1848). S. W. Alps. Ga.

H. subglabrescens (Zahn) P. D. Sell & C. West, Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 267 (1976) ( H. valdepilosum subsp. subglabrescens Zahn ). Alps. Au Ga Ge He.

H. valdepilosum Vili. , Prosp. Pl. Dauph. 34 (1779). S.W. & W.C. Alps. Ga He It.

H. willdenowianum (Zahn) P. D. Sell & C. West, Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 71: 267 (1976) ( H. valdepilosum subsp. willdenowianum Zahn ). Au Ga He Ju Rm.