Hypochoeris glabra, L.

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 : 309

8. H. glabra L. , Sp. Pl. 811 (1753).

Annual or perennial. Stems 1-40 cm, usually branched, slightly to strongly thickened immediately below the capitula, glabrous, rarely setulose or prickly, usually with remote scales or leaves above. Leaves 1-20 cm, oblanceolate or spathulate, dentate to pinnatifid, glabrous to puberulent, rarely setulose-hispid. Capitula 5-15 mm wide. Involucral bracts up to 21 x 2-5 mm, in several rows, glabrous, or sparsely long-setose on the mid-vein. Ligules bright or pale yellow. Marginal achenes 2-5-6 mm, unbeaked, sometimes absent; inner achenes 6—8 • 5(— 13 -5) mm, long-beaked orunbeaked; pappus of 2 rows of hairs, the outer 3-6 mm, scabrid or sparsely plumose, the inner 9-5-15 mm, plumose, not dilated at the base. 2л = 10. Europe northwards to S.E. Norway and eastwards to Latvia, W. Ukraine and the Aegean region. All except Fa Fe Hu Is Rs (N, К, E) Sb.