Pieris pauciflora, Willd.

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 : 317

10. P. pauciflora Willd. , Sp. Pl. 3: 1557 (1803).

Annual. Stems 10-50 cm, with numerous unequal, rigid hairs. Leaves with few to numerous, more or less rigid hairs; basal 30-120x 5-15 mm, narrowly elliptical, oblong-elliptical or oblanceolate, entire to sinuate-dentate, narrowed into petiole; lower cauline similar to basal, the upper smaller, narrower, sessile, sometimes semiamplexicaul. Capitula few; peduncles long, slightly thickened after anthesis. Involucre 10-12x7-10 mm; bracts linearlanceolate to lanceolate, mostly acute, with short stellate and longer rigid hairs mainly on the median line; outer bracts patent, up to half as long as inner. Achenes 4-5-5 mm, dark brown, more or less curved, strongly transversely muricate, shortly beaked. Balkan peninsula and Aegean region', Krym', S.E. France. Al Bu Cr Ga Gr?Hs Ju Rs (К).