Scabiosa eretica, L.

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 : 69

3. S. eretica L. , Sp. Pl. 100 (1753).

Caespitose perennial, woody at base. Stem 10-25(-30) cm, procumbent, white-lanate, often leafless. Basal leaves obovate-lanceolate, 3^-5 times as long as wide, subacute, appressed-sericeous and with short curved hairs, tapering into petiole. Capitula 35-5O(-55) mm in diameter, globose, solitary; peduncle scarcely exceeding leaves. Involucral bracts ovate or narrowly ovate, obtuse, densely white-lanate, as long as florets. Receptacular bracts linear, with narrow membranous margin. Involucel-tube 5-7 mm; pits 2-2-5 mm, narrowly elliptical, densely lanate; corona 7-9 mm, hirsute, irregular, with 24-35 veins. Calyx-setae shorter than corona. Corolla about twice as long in marginal as in central florets, lilac. Rocky places. W. Mediterranean region. BI It Si.