Onosma alborosea
Onosma alborosea
Ssp alborosea: Kaya emceği; Ssp sanguinolenta: Mor şincar
Perennial. Stems 10-20 cm, usually simple, erect or ascending, patent to adpressed-setose and shortly adpressed-hairy. Leaves 25-60 x 6-12 mm, obovate to. oblong or lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse to acute, whitish with very dense usually adpressed setae and shortly hairy; basal and lower cauline shortly petiolate, greenish, sometimes less densely setose and hairy than upper cauline. Inflorescence of 1 or more cymes, congested in flower. Bracts lanceolate-cordate to lanceolate. Pedicels 1-3 mm. Calyx 14-16 mm, usually scarcely accrescent in fruit, lobes linear-Ianceolate, densely hairy, hairs patent near base, adpressed towards apex. Corolla whitish at first, becoming pink or purple and finally bluish-violet or intense purple, 18-30 mm, clavate-campanulate. Anthers included or with sterile tips exserted, free, shorter than filaments.
1. Corolla shortly hairy, becoming bluish-violet with age, quite broadly campanulate subsp. albo-roseum
2. Nutlets 6-7 x 3-4 mm, not angulate, smooth var. albo-roseum
2. Nutlets 8 x 6 mm, angulate, obsoletely rugose var. macrocarpum
1. Corolla glabrous, becoming intense purple with age, ± narrowly cylindrical subsp. sanguinolentum
