Hieracium piliferum

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 : 386

120. H. piliferum group. Stems 5-15(-40)cm, with few to numerous stellate hairs, villous with few to numerous simple eglandular hairs (rarely without simple eglandular hairs) and sometimes a few glandular hairs. Leaves with few to numerous long, flexuous simple eglandular hairs; basal few to numerous, 20-110 x 5-20 mm, lanceolate to oblong, acute to obtuse, usually entire, gradually narrowed at base into a short, winged petiole; cauline 0-l(-2). Capitula 1—2(—5). Involucre 9-15(-17)x 15- 20 mm; bracts narrow, long-acute, with dense, long, flexuous simple eglandular hairs, often with a few small glandular hairs. Stigmas yellow or discoloured. Ligules glabrous. 1700-2800 m. • Pyrenees; Alps; mountains of S.C. France; Carpathians; mountains of W. Jugoslavia. Au Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm.

Included species:

H. glanduliferum Hoppe in Sturm, Deutschl. FI. 39: 623 (1815). Alps. Au Ga He It Ju.

H. piliferum Hoppe , Bot. Taschenb. 1799: 129 (1799). Au Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm.

H. subnivale Gren. & Godron , FI. Fr. 2: 357 (1850). 5. W. Alps. Ga It.