Scorzonera pacis
Scorzonera pacis
Perennial, caulescent, up to 75 cm tall herb. Rootstock thickened, cylindrical. Leaf residues present, not fibrous. Stems usually several and branched, ascending. Whole plant sparsely arachnoid-floccose, becoming glabrous at fruit maturity time. Basal leaves 15-25 x 0,2-1,2 cm, linear to lanceolate, entire, acuminate. Plant sometimes heterophyllous with linear and lanceolate leaves together. Cauline leaves 4-22 x 0,2-0,4 cm. Capitula 2-4 per stem, 1,5-3 x 1-2 cm when flowering, becoming 2,5-4 x 3-3,5 cm in fruit. Outer surface of phyllaries sparsely arachnoid-floccose, especially at base; inner surface glabrous. Outer phyllaries ovate, acute to obtuse, 0,5-1 x 0,3-0,6 cm. Inner phyllaries ovate-lanceolate, acut to obtuse, 0,8-1,7 x 0,3-0,6 cm when flower and 1,4-3,8 x 0,7-1,2 cm in fruit. Florets yellow, exceeding involucre. Achenes 1,3-1,4 x 0,3-0,4 cm, excluding pappus, milky-brown or red-brown, narrowly ellipsoid, 1-1,5 mm, with 5- distinctly and regularly toothed wings. Lower 2-4 mm of achene wingless and hollow. Pappus 0,8-1 cm, heteromorphic, short hairs plumose, long hairs plumose below and barbellate above.
Flowering : April-May; Fruiting: May-July
Endemic
