Asperula taurina, 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 : 12

52. A. taurina L. , Sp. Pl. 103 (1753)

(inch A. caucasico Pobed. , A. propinqua Pobed. ).

Stock with orange, more or less horizontal subterranean stolons. Stems (10-)20-50 cm, erect, stout, distinctly 4-angled, more or less patent-hairy. Leaves in whorls of 4, 30-60 x 10-25 cm, lanceolate to ovate, abruptly narrowed at base, pale beneath, with 3 main veins and distinct reticulate venation, patent-hairy especially on the veins and margin. Flowers in dense capitula, surrounded by involucral leaves and by long-ciliate bracts. Flowers 4-merous; corolla 10-14 mm, tubular to narrowly infundibuliform, white or pale yellowish; tube 6-5-10-5 mm; lobes 2-3-5 mm, much longer than wide. Filaments 2-3 mm; anthers 1 -3-1-5 mm, oblong. Fruit 1-3 mm, glabrous and smooth. 2л = 22. Deciduous woods and scrub up to the montane zone. S. & S. C. Europe. Al Au Bu Ga Gr He Hs Hu It Ju Rm Rs (K) [BrDaGe]. T