Hieracium sonchoides

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 : 382

100. H. sonchoides group ( H. cordifoliumlmurorum ). Stems 30-80 cm, with numerous to dense long simple eglandular hairs throughout and stellate and short glandular hairs above. Leaves all more or less glaucous, with numerous simple eglandular hairs, sometimes glabrous above, sometimes with a few minute glands on the margin; basal 30-120 x 20-50 mm, ovate or elliptical, obtuse to acute, more or less dentate, narrowed into a petiole; cauline 3-6, like the basal, the lower often petiolate, semiamplexicaul. Capitula (2—)5— 15(—20); peduncles with dense stellate and dense glandular hairs. Involucre 10- 14 x 8-12 mm; bracts more or less acute, with few to numerous stellate and dense unequal glandular hairs. Stigmas discoloured. Ligules with numerous simple eglandular hairs at apex. 400-1600 m. • Pyrenees, mountains of S. C. France. Ga Hs.

Included species:

H. sonchoides Arvet-Touvet , Suppl. Monogr. Hier. 8 (1876). Ga Hs.