Santolina rosmarinifolia, 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 : 145

4. S. rosmarinifolia L. , Sp. Pl. 842 (1753)

(inch S. pectinata Lag. , S', viridis Willd. ).

Stems (15-)35-45(-60) cm, erect or ascending from a procumbent, branched stock; non-flowering shoots with greyish-glaucous leaves and short axillary shoots; flowering stems usually simple, leafless above. Juvenile leaves erect to erecto-patent, narrowly linear, acute, very shortly and remotely tuberculate-denticulate to pectinate-pinnatifid; adult leaves with closely appressed teeth, the uppermost entire. Peduncles thickened above. Involucre 7-12 mm wide, hemispherical, subtruncate and umbilicate at the base; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, strongly carinate, the inner with wide, scarious, lacerate apex. Florets bright yellow. 2n=18, 36. Iberian peninsula, S. France. Ga Hs Lu.