Helichrysum plicatum, DC.

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 : 130

12. H. plicatum DC. , Prodr. 6: 183 (1838).

Perennial 20-40 cm. Stems erect or ascending from the branched woody stock, glandular-puberulent. Leaves green, glandular and viscid, somewhat lanate on the margin and on the veins beneath; basal crowded, oblong-spathulate, narrowed into the petiole, withering early; lower cauline 30-40 mm, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, sessile, shortly decurrent; upper cauline smaller, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, with somewhat revolute margin. Inflorescence 2-6 cm across; involucre c. 5 mm in diameter, subglobose to widely campanulate; bracts shining yellow, glabrous, often longitudinally plicate, rather laxly imbricate, the inner c. 3 times as long as the outer, linear-oblong, subacute, the outer ovate, obtuse. Achenes brown, minutely white-tuberculate. Dry mountain pastures. S. part of Balkan peninsula. Al Gr Ju.