Knautia velutina, Briq.

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 : 65

20. К. velutina Briq. , Annu. Cons. Jard. Bot. Genève 6: 94 (1902).

Perennial; stock sympodial, rather caespitose, with basal leaf-rosettes and flowering stems. Stem (15-)25-40(-60) cm, patent-tomentose and pubescent; peduncles glandular. Leaves membranous, densely velutinous with rather short hairs above, greyish-subtomentose beneath; basal green at anthesis, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, undivided, crenate-serrate, petiolate; cauline undivided or sublyrate-pinnate with 2-4(-8) lateral lobes and a lanceolate, subcrenate-serrate terminal lobe about as long as the divided part, with a narrow, rounded base. Capitula (1- 8—)2—3(—3-5) cm in diameter. Calyx patelliform, usually 8- awned. Corolla purple. 2л = 20. Rocky limestone slopes. • S. Alps, from c. 9° 30' to 12° 30' E. It.

Hybridizes with 1(c) & (e).