Minuartia recurva, (All.) Schinz & Thell.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 129

26. M. recurva (All.) Schinz & Thell. , Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2,7: 404 (1907)

( Alsine recurva (All.) Wahlenb. ).

Densely caespitose perennial; stems woody and often black below; flowering stems usually up to 12 cm; plant sparsely glandular-pubescent, at least above. Leaves 4-10 mm, 3-veined, falcate. Cymes 1- to 8- flowered; pedicels up to 3 times as long as sepals. Sepals 3-25- 5-5(-6) mm, ovate-lanceolate, 5- to 7-veined; petals and capsule slightly exceeding sepals. Seeds 1-2 mm, weakly tuberculate. Usually calcifuge. Mountains o f S. & S.C. Europe from Portugal to the S. Carpathians. Al Au Bu G a G r He Hs It Ju Lu Rm Si.