Lappula barbata, (Bieb.) Gurke

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 118

6. L. barbata (Bieb.) Gürke in Engler & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 107 (1895)

( Echinophorum barbatum (Bieb.) Lehm. ).

Annual or biennial, grey with dense, appressed hairs. Stem 10-70 cm, erect, often branched. Leaves 30-70 x 5-8 mm, linear to lanceolate, the lower petiolate, the upper sessile. Pedicels up to 5 mm, erect. Calyx 2-3 mm in flower, c. 4 mm in fruit. Corolla 3-5 mm; limb (3—)5—8 mm in diameter, almost rotate, white or blue. Nutlets 3-4 mm, flattened-trigonous; upper surface minutely tuberculate; margin with 2-3 rows of giochidia which are usually neither dilated nor flattened at the base. Dry places. S.E. Europe, from S. Albania to E. Ukraine; E. Spain. Al Bu Hs Rm Rs (W, K, E).