Scabiosa stellata, 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 : 70

16. S. stellata L. , Sp. Pl. 100 (1753) .

Shortly pubescent annual, with scattered, long, erect hairs. Stem (10-)20-60 cm, erect, simple or branched. Middle leaves elliptic-oblong, dentate to pinnatifid with 4-6(-7) pairs of elliptic-lanceolate to linear segments. Involucral bracts (10-)12-20 mm, lanceolate, entire, shorter than to about equalling florets. Receptacular bracts broadly ovate, long-acuminate. Involucel-tube 5-8-5 mm; pits 2-3-2-5 mm, hirsute and narrow in the lower part; corona 6-9-5 mm, distinctly longer than tube, with 30-39 veins. Calyx-setae 6-3-10 mm, slightly longer than corona, with very short 1- to 2-celled basal glandular hairs having globose glands. Corolla of marginal florets distinctly longer than that of the central, pale blue. Anthers 1-9-2-1 mm. S. W. Europe. BI Ga Hs It Lu Sa.