Antennaria carpatica, (Wahlenb.) Bluff & Fingerh.

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5. A. carpatica (Wahlenb.) Bluff & Fingerh. , Comp. FI. Germ. 1: 348 (1825).

Tomentose perennial up to 15(-24) cm, with vertical woody stock without stolons and producing a few basal leafrosettes. Basal leaves up to 90 x 11 mm, oblanceolate to linear, acute. Cauline leaves few, the upper with a brown scarious apex. Capitula (6—)7—9(— 11). Involucral bracts lanceolate in female plants, broadly elliptical to obovate in male plants, with a dark centre, pale brown above; apex erose. Male florets cream-coloured, sometimes purplish above; anthers purple. Pappus less than T75 mm longer than the style at maturity. Achenes frequently produced. 2л = 56. Grassy or stony slopes. • Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians. Au Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).

Sexual, the male and female plants being about equally frequent. This octoploid species can produce hexaploid progeny when crossed with 1 but such hybrids are very rare in nature.

There is considerable variation in leaf-width and the upper surface varies from subglabrous to densely tomentose.