Crepis bithynica, Boiss.

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 : 352

42. C. bithynica Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 1(4): 29 (1844).

Stems 1-4, 5-12 cm, simple or with up to 4 branches. Leaves up to 10 x 1 -3 cm, all basal, numerous, spathulate, rounded-obtuse or oblanceolate, acute, narrowed at base, shallowly lobed or dentate, with short, yellow, glandular or eglandular hairs. Capitula 1-4. Involucre 9-12 x 4 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, the outer c. i as long as the inner, with numerous, short glandular or eglandular hairs, sometimes tomentulose at base. Achenes 5-6 x 0-5 mm, pale greenish-yellow, fusiform, 15-striate. 2л = 10. Calcareous rocks and dry pastures. Mountains of the Balkan peninsula, from Bosna to E. C. Greece. Bu Gr Ju.