Leontodon keretinus, F. Nyl.

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 : 312

5. L. keretinus F. Nyl. , Spicil. Pl. Fenn. 1: 24 (1843).

Perennial with oblique, truncate stock. Stems 1-numerous, 15-45 cm, usually branched, with few simple eglandular hairs below, glabrous or nearly so above; bracts numerous, particularly just below the capitula. Leaves 30-180 x 3-25 mm, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, deeply pinnatisect with narrowly lanceolate or linear, usually upwardly directed lobes, tapered into the petiole, glabrous or with simple eglandular hairs. Capitula (l-)2-4. Involucre 7-12x7-12 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, with dense, long, reddish simple eglandular hairs and shorter whitish hairs. Ligules orange, concolorous. Stigmas discoloured. Achenes 5-7 mm, brown, with a short beak, transversely muricate; pappus of 2 rows of plumose hairs, the hairs of the outer row shorter. • N.E. Europe. Fe Rs (N, C).