Leontodon pyrenaicus, Gouan

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 : 311

1. L. pyrenaicus Gouan , Obs. Bot. 55 (1773).

Perennial with vertical or oblique, truncate stock. Stems 1-3, 4-50 cm, simple, thickened at apex, glabrous or nearly so below, with few to numerous dark simple eglandular hairs above; bracts 3-7. Leaves 10-80 x 3-20 mm, linear, narrowly elliptical or oblanceolate, entire, dentate or pinnatifid, with few to numerous hairs. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 9-13 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with few to numerous dark simple eglandular hairs intermixed with shorter whitish hairs. Ligules yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 5-10 mm, pale brown or pale chestnutbrown, cylindrical or narrowly fusiform, gradually narrowed at apex, weakly transversely muricate; pappus-hairs very pale brown, in 1 row and plumose, or in 2 rows, the outer not plumose, the inner longer and plumose. • Mountains ofS. & S.C. Europe, from N. Portugal to W. Jugoslavia. Au Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Lu.

1 Leaves entire or subentire (a) subsp. pyrenaicus 1 Leaves denticulate to dentate or pinnatifid

2 Petioles indistinct or up to 20 mm; involucre 9-10 mm

(b) subsp. cantabricus 2 Petioles 5-50(-80) mm; involucre10-13 mm (c) subsp.helveticus