Omalotheca sylvatica, (L.) Schultz Bip. & F. W. Schultz

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 : 126

1. O. sylvatica (L.) Schultz Bip. & F. W. Schultz in F. W. Schultz, Arch. Fl. Jour. Bot. 311 (1861)

( Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. ).

Plant greyish-sericeous-tomentose, with several non-flowering shoots. Stem (5-)20-50(-70) cm, densely leafy. Leaves 2-8 x 0-2-0-8 cm, lanceolate to linear, 1 (or indistinctly 3)-veined, diminishing steadily in size up the stem, tomentose beneath, glabrescent above, erecto-patent. Inflorescence occupying of the length of the stem, lax, interrupted below. Capitula 5-7 x 1-5-2 mm. Involucral bracts 5-5-5 mm, linear-oblong, the inner about equalling the florets. Florets 3-5 mm, the female c. 70, the hermaphrodite 3-4. Achenes 1-5 mm, hispid; pappus 3- 5-3-8 mm, reddish. 2n = 56. Open woods, heaths and grassland', somewhat calcifuge. Most of Europe except many of the islands. AlAuBeBrBuCoCzDaFeGaGeGrHbHeHoHsHuIsIt Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, K, E) Su.

Mountain variants with short stems, wider, shorter leaves, dense and short inflorescences, dark brown involucral bracts and leaves tomentose on both surfaces resemble 2, but differ in the basal leaves with petiole shorter than the lamina, the cauline 1-veined, gradually diminishing in size up the stem, several nonflowering shoots, etc.