Leontopodium (Pers.) R. Br.

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 : 132

27. Leontopodium (Pers.) R. Br. 1

Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire. Inflorescence of several small capitula crowded together at the apex of the stem and subtended by an involucre of leaves. Involucral bracts in several rows. Receptacle convex, without scales. Florets all tubular, the outer female, the inner functionally male, or the capitulum consisting entirely or nearly entirely of one or the other type. Achenes subterete, unribbed; pappus-hairs in 1 row, denticulate, connate at base.

Literature: H. von Handel-Mazzetti, Beih. Bot. Centr. 44 (2): 1-178 (1927).