Knautia dinarica, (Murb.) Borbas

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 : 64

16. K. dinarica (Murb.) Borbas , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 44: 399 (1894).

Perennial; stock sympodial, subcaespitose, usually with

leaf-rosettes at anthesis which develop into flowering stems next year, without underground stolons. Stem 30-80 cm; lower internodes often short, shortly pubescent and with yellowish setae, rarely subvillous; upper internodes and peduncles hairy and usually glandular. Leaves of non-flowering rosettes ellipticor oblong-lanceolate, undivided, crenate-serrate, yellowish-setose, petiolate; cauline leaves broadly or narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, undivided or sublyrate with 1-4 lateral lobes in the lower i(-i), the lower petiolate, the upper entire or crenate-serrate, densely greyish-pubescent, subcordate and amplexicaul. Capitula 2-5-4 cm in diameter. Calyx cupuliform, usually 8-awned. Corolla purple. Mountain meadows and open woods. • C. part of Balkan peninsula; S. W. Italy. Al Bu It Ju.