Hieracium lanatum

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

135. H. lanatum group. Stems 10-50 cm, with numerous, sometimes dense stellate hairs and villous with dense, white, crispate simple eglandular hairs or subpiumose hairs, usually without glandular hairs. Leaves villous with dense, white, crispate subpiumose or plumose hairs, sometimes with stellate hairs beneath; basal 35-100 x 15-40 mm, elliptical, lanceolate or ovate, the outer obtuse, the inner acute, all usually entire or with few teeth, occasionally more strongly dentate, attenuate at base; cauline 2-5(-8), like the basal but often sessile, the upper bractlike. Capitula (2—)3—7(— 12); peduncles very long, clothed like the stem. Involucre 12-18 x 10-15 mm; bracts long-acute, villous with dense, white, crispate simple eglandular hairs, without stellate and usually without glandular hairs. Stigmas yellow. Ligules glabrous orwith a few short hairs at apex. 300-2100 m. • S.E. France, W. Switzerland, N. W. Italy. Ga He It. Included species:

H. andryaloides Vili. , Prosp. Pl. Dauph. 35 (1779). S.E. France, N. W. Italy. Galt.

H. lanatum Vili. , loc. cit. (1779). From the Jura to the Alpi Apuane. Ga He It.

H.liottardii Vili. , loc. cit. (1779). S.E.France,N. W. Italy. Galt. (xiii) Like (xii) but hairs usually less plumose; glandular and stellate hairs often present; involucre usually smaller; ligules often with obvious hairs at apex.