Doronicum columnae, Ten.

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 : 190

3. D. columnae Ten. , FI. Nap. 1, Prodr.: 49 (1811)

(D. cordatum auct., non Lam.).

Stems 12-60 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Rhizome glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Basal leaves 3—7(—8) x 3-6-5(-7-5) cm, ovate-orbicular or cordate, long-petiolate, glabrous or pubescent, especially on the margin, crenate-dentate; cauline leaves 3-4, the lower elliptical to ovate-lanceolate, sometimes weakly panduriform, amplexicaul, the upper ovate-lanceolate, amplexicaul. Capitula solitary, (2-)2-5- 5(-6) cm in diameter; peduncles glandular-pubescent. Involucral bracts 8-14(-18) mm, linear-lanceolate, c. | as long as ligules, densely glandular-pubescent. Achenes of marginal florets without a pappus. Shady mountain rocks. E. Alps, Appennini, mountains of Romania and Balkan peninsula. Al Au Bu Ge Gr It Ju RmRs (W).