Galium incanum, Sibth. & Sm.

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 : 29

82. G. incanum Sibth. & Sm. , Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 91 (1806).

Caespitose. Stock more or less woody, with or without stolons. Stems 2-15 cm, erect to decumbent, usually shortly hairy. Leaves (3—)4—10(—30) x 0-4-1-2(1-6) mm, in whorls of (5—)6(—8), linear to linear-lanceolate, with a short hyaline apiculum, usually hairy and blackish when dry; margin more or less recurved. Inflorescence oval to elongate, few- or many-flowered. Corolla (1-5-) l-7-2-2(-3) mm, infundibuliform to cup-shaped, white or pink; lobes lanceolate. Fruit glabrous, rarely hairy. Calcareous rocks, screes and open grassland. Mountains of Greece and Kriti. Cr Gr.