Isatis tinctoria
Isatis tinctoria
Ssp corymbosa: Eğriboyun; Ssp parchalensis: Devemercimeği;
Ssp tinctoria: Çivitotu; Ssp tomentella: Kızlargöbeği
Biennial or shortly perennial. Stem 40-90 cm, glabrous or hirsute, subterete, laxly paniculate with branches coming off at more than 40°. Leaves hirsute; pubescent or glabrous, thin; basal leaves entire or weakly dentate; median stem leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate with vertical triangular-lanceolate auricles. Flowers 3-4 mm, sepals glabrous. Fruits 10-20 x 2-5 mm, tapering from near apex to base, or oblong, glabrous or puberulent, wing thick, as wide or narrower than the median loculus , midrib slender.
1. Fruit 15-20 x4-5 mm, gradually tapering from near apex to base, apex rounded or emarginate, glabrous, or with a puberulent loculus ..........subsp. tinctoria
1. Fruit 10-15 x 2-4 mm
2. Fruit 12-15 x 2,5-4 mm, tapering from near apex to base,· apex rounded or emarginate, usually puberulent-tomentose throughout .......................subsp. tomentella
2. Fruit c. 10 x2,5-3 mm, narrowly oblong, rounded at apex and base, glabrous or puberulent ........subsp. corymbosa
