Ligularia glauca, (L.) O. Hoffm.

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 : 205

2. L. glauca (L.) O. Hoffm. in Engler & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. 4 (5): 288 (1892)

( Senecillis glauca (L.) Gaertner ; inch L. carpathica (Schott , Nyman & Kotschy) Pojark.).

Glaucous perennial 50-150 cm, with a stout, fibrous stock. Stems erect, simple, glabrous. Basal leaves 5-25x 3-15 cm, oblongovate to -elliptical, entire or weakly denticulate, glabrous, narrowed at base into a petiole up to as long as the lamina; cauline smaller, the upper subsessile. Capitula several to many, shortly pedunculate in short, dense, bracteate spikes. Involucre 8-10 mm, with 10-12 linear-lanceolate bracts; supplementary bracts 1-2, linear, c. 0.5 as long as involucre. Ligules 6-12, 10-13 x 5-6 mm, yellow. Achenes 4-6 mm; pappus less than half as long as achene, dirty white. 2n = 60. Steppe and mountain grassland. Carpathians, W. Ukraine and mountains of S. W. Bulgaria. Bu Cz Rm Rs (W).