Centaurea badensis, Tratt.

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 : 268

53. C. badensis Tratt. , Arch. Gewächsk. 1: 28 (1812)

(C. scabiosa subsp. badensis (Tratt.) Gugler ).

Stems 60-100 cm, simple, glabrous. Leaves shiny, smooth, sometimes subscabrid on margin; lower pinnate, with entire, lanceolate segments; upper pinnatifid, with linear-lanceolate segments. Involucre 15-18 mm, ovoid-globose; bracts not covered by the appendages; appendages triangular-semilunate, the outer black, the inner brown or yellow; fimbriae white. Florets purple, the outer longer than the inner. Achenes c. 5 mm; pappus c. 5 mm, dirty white. Dry scrub on hillsides. • E. Austria, S.E. Czechoslovakia. Au Cz.

Plants from W. Czechoslovakia and N. Hungary intermediate between 49 and 53 have been called C. scabiosa subsp. tematinensis (Domin) Domin , Preslia 13-15: 246 (1936) ( subsp. vertesensis (Boros) Soó , C. vertesensis Boros ); they have 2n = 20.