Hieracium villosum

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 : 384

109. H. villosum group. Stems 15-30(-40) cm, with numerous stellate and very dense, white, soft simple eglandular hairs 4-10 (-12) mm. Leaves with dense simple eglandular hairs up to 8 mm; basal few to many, 45-85(-100) x (10-)12-20(-25) mm, oblong to lanceolate, obtuse to acute, usually with undulate margin, entire to shortly dentate, gradually narrowed into a subpetiolate base; cauline (2—)4—8(—15), gradually decreasing in size up the stem, the uppermost bract-like, the lower narrow at the base, the remainder broad, rounded or more or less amplexicaul at the base. Capitula (l-)2-4; peduncles long, straight, with dense stellate and long simple eglandular hairs, without glandular hairs. Involucre 14—17(—23) x 12-20(-25) mm; bracts lanceolate to linear, long-acute or acuminate, the outer more or less squarrose, with very dense simple eglandular hairs up to 5 mm, without or with few minute glandular hairs. Stigmas yellow or discoloured. 2л = 27, 36. Stony and grassy places; calcicole. • Mountains of Europe, from the Jura and Carpathians to the S. W. Alps, S. Appennini and N. Bulgaria. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).

Included species:

H. villosum Jacq. , Enum. Stirp. Vindob. 142 (1762). Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He It Ju Rm Rs (W).