Cephalaria joppica, (Sprengel) Beguinot

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 : 58

9. C. joppica (Sprengel) Béguinot in Fiori & Paol., FI. Anal. Ital. 3: 144 (1903).

Annual up to 90 cm. Leaves 7-18 x 3-9 cm, lyrate, with oblong or oblong-ovate, dentate, crenate-dentate or serrate lobes, more or less pubescent; cauline leaves with linear lobes. Involucral bracts 2-3-5 x 1-5 mm, ovate or orbicular, obtuse, appressed-pubescent or puberulent. Receptacular scales 4-5-6 x 2-3 mm, spathulate, mucronate. Corolla c. 9 mm, white or pink. Involucel c. 4 mm in fruit, 8-angled, with 8 subequal setae 0.2-0.5 as long as tube. Roadsides. S. Italy, Sicilia. It Si. (S.W. Asia.)