Onosma taurica, Pallas ex Willd.

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 : 94

30. O. taurica Pallas ex Willd. , Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Sehr. 2: 122 (1799).

Caespitose perennial with several flowering stems; stems 10-40 cm, simple, puberulent and stellatesetose. Lower leaves 40-120 x 3-8 mm, linear-oblong, stellatesetose, above with setae 1-2 mm and rays O-3-O-5 mm, beneath with setae c. 1 mm and rays 0-4-0-5 mm. Pedicels 0-2 mm; lower bracts exceeding calyx. Calyx 10-13 mm in flower, up to 18 mm in fruit, with usually simple setae. Corolla 20-30 mm, pale yellow, glabrous but often papillose, 2-3 times as long as calyx. Nutlets 3-5-4 mm, smooth, shining. 2« =14. S.E. Europe. Bu G r Ju Rm Rs (W, K) Tu.