Hieracium erioleucum

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 : 388

136. H. erioleucum group (AT. lanatum / villosum ). Stems (6-)20-40 cm, with dense, more or less plumose hairs 4-7 mm throughout and stellate hairs at least above. Leaves 35-100 x 15-40 mm, entire or with few teeth, with dense white, crispate, more or less plumose hairs 4-7 mm; basal elliptical, lanceolate or ovate, the outer obtuse, the inner acute, attenuate at base; cauline 3-6, more or less ovate-cordate, more or less amplexicaul. Capitula 2-6; peduncles long, clothed like stem. Involucre 12-20 x 10-15 mm; bracts broad, long-acute, the outer more or less squarrose, villous with dense white, crispate, more or less plumose hairs 4-7 mm. Stigmas yellow. Ligules usually with short simple eglandular hairs at apex. • S. W. Alps. Galt.

Included species:

H. erioleucum Zahn , Hier. Alpes Marit. 227 (1916). Ga It.