Adenostyles alliariae, (Gouan) A. Kerner

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 : 189

1. A. alliariae (Gouan) A. Kerner , Österr. Bot. Zeitsehr. 21: 12 (1871)

( A. albifrons Reichenb. ).

Stern 60-200 cm, erect, stout, branched, often fioccose. Lower leaves 20-50 cm wide, triangular-cordate to reniform, usually somewhat arachnoid-pubescent beneath, with coarse, very unequal teeth; ultimate veins forming an indistinct, lax reticulum beneath; upper cauline leaves small, sessile and semi-amplexicaul or petiolate, with semi-amplexicaul auricles. Capitula cylindrical; involucral bracts oblong, acute, glabrous, usually purplish. Florets reddish-purple, rarely white. Achenes c. 3 mm. 2n = 38. Wood- and stream-margins, scrub and damp rocky slopes. • Mountains of Europe, from the Vosges and the Carpathians southwards to C. Spain, Corse and N. Greece. Al Au Bu Co Cz Ga Ge Gr He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).