Carpesium 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 : 138

34. Carpesium L. 1

Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves simple, alternate. Capitula often nodding, terminal or axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucral bracts in few rows, the outer herbaceous, the others coriaceous, obtuse. Receptacle flat, without scales. All florets tubular, the outer female, the inner hermaphrodite, yellow. Achenes fusiform, costate, shortly beaked, with a cartilaginous rim; pappus absent.

Capitula all pedunculate; outer involucral bracts leaf-like

1. cernuum Capitula subsessile; outer involucral bracts not leaf-like

2. abrotanoides