Asperula graveolens, Bieb. ex Schultes & Schultes fil.

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 : 11

35. A. graveolens Bieb. ex Schultes & Schultes fil. , Mantissa 3:376(1827).

Shoots green. Stems 10-35 cm, geniculate-ascending, more or less weak, rough at the base, usually with conspicuous, short, non-flowering shoots at the nodes; middle internodes 1-3 times as long as the leaves. Leaves (15-)25-30(-40) x 0-4-1 -2 mm, linear to acicular, acute, patent and falcate to recurved, usually shortly hairy; margin distinctly revolute. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or ciliate, scarcely exceeding the fruits; pedicels O-l-5(-3) mm. Corolla 3-5-4 mm, broadly hypocrateriform to narrowly infundibuliform; tube 1-1| times as long as lobes; lobes distinctly appendiculate. Fruit (2-)3-4mm, densely covered with squamiform tubercles. • E. Ukraine and S. Russia, from the Dnepr to E. of the Don. Rs (C, W, E).