Hieracium cordifolium

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 : 382

99. H. cordifolium group. Stems 20-40(-80) cm, with few to numerous long simple eglandular hairs 2-6 mm throughout and sometimes some glandular hairs above. Leaves villous with simple eglandular hairs 1-2-5 mm intermixed with occasional glandular hairs, or glabrescent above, the petioles and midrib beneath with simple eglandular hairs 3-10 mm; basal 30-200 x 15-35 mm, obovate, oblanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse to acute, sinuate-denticulate to subdentate, gradually narrowed into a winged petiole; cauline 2-5(-8), ovate-cordate, amplexicaul. Capitula (1—)2—10(—20); peduncles with numerous stellate and numerous glandular hairs. Involucre 8-12 x 8-12 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, with numerous unequal glandular hairs and sometimes a few simple eglandular hairs. Achenes 3-3-5 mm. 800-2300 m. • E. & C. Pyrenees, Cevennes. Ga Hs.

Included species:

H. cordifolium Lapeyr. , Hist. Abr. Pyr., Suppl. 128 (1818). Although this name has always been used for this group of plants in the aggregate sense it has not been typified and it is uncertain to which segregate the name applies.

H. eriocerinthe Fries , Hier. Eur. Exsicc. no. 20 (1861). Ga Hs.

H. gouanii Arvet-Touvet , Spicil. Rar. Nov. Hier., Suppl. 2: 47 (1886). Ga Hs.

H. neocerinthe Fries , Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 14: 67 (1848). Ga Hs.