Eritrichium pectinatum, (Pallas) DC.

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 : 117

1. E. pectinatum (Pallas) DC. , Prodr. 10: 127 (1846).

Laxly caespitose, grey with dense, stout, appressed hairs. Stems 15-30 cm, erect, simple, from a branched, woody stock. Leaves 10-20 x 3-4 mm, linear-lanceolate to -oblong. Inflorescence usually branched, with 5-25 flowers; pedicels 2-5 mm in flower, 10-20 mm in fruit. Calyx c. 2 mm, scarcely accrescent. Corolla c. 5 mm; limb 6-8 mm in diameter, bright blue. Nutlets c. 1 x 1-5-2 mm, turbinate; upper surface smooth; margin with a dentate-pectinate wing; sides making an acute angle at the point of attachment of the nutlet. Mountain rocks. On the border o f Europe in C. Ural. Rs (C). (Siberia.)