Knautia xnorica, Ehrend.

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 : 65

24. K. xnorica Ehrend. , op. cit. 336 (1962)

( K. carinthiaca x drymeia subsp. drymeia ).

Like 23 but basal leaf-rosettes usually absent at anthesis; stem up to 50(-70) cm, the lower internodes usually longer than in 23; basal leaves oblong-ovate, usually with laxer indumentum, the cauline often undivided or lyrate with an ovate-acuminate, crenate terminal lobe, sometimes pinnate; capitula up to 4 cm in diameter; calyx usually 8- to 10-awned; corolla violet. 2л = 40. Scrub and grassland; calcicole and on serpentine . • S. C. Austria (N.E. Kärnten and C. Steiermark). Au.

Polymorphic and often growing without one or both parents. Certain plants from the W. & S. Carpathians are greenishpubescent and have undivided, ovate-lanceolate rosette-leaves, usually lyrate-pinnate cauline leaves, glandular or eglandular peduncles and reddish-purple corolla. They would key out here, but are certainly not identical with 24, and have usually been mistaken for 29; their taxonomic position needs further attention.