Leontodon cichoraceus

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 : 312

9. L. cichoraceus (Ten.) Sanguinetti, Cent. Prodr. FI. Rom. Ill (1837)

( L. fasciculatus (Biv.) Nyman ).

Perennial with slender tubers. Stems 1-numerous, 8-40 cm, simple, glabrous or with few simple eglandular hairs; bracts numerous. Leaves 15-70x 5-20 mm, oblanceolate, dentate to runcinate-pinnatifid, glabrous or with few to numerous simple eglandular hairs. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 12-15x7-8 mm; bracts narrowly linearlanceolate, obtuse, with numerous simple eglandular hairs. Ligules yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 7-10 mm, brown, with a beak about as long as body, transversely muricate; pappus of 1 row of plumose hairs. C. & S. Italy, Balkan peninsula. Al Bu?Cr Gr It Ju Si.