Lomelosia argentea
Lomelosia argentea
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Slender erect biennial or perennial with glabrous or pubescent and setose stems 15-60 cm tall. Lower leaves 1-2-pinnatisect, segments linear; upper leaves usually simple, linear. Involucral bracts 6-8, linear, longer or shorter than flowers. Capitula 1-2,3 cm diam., radiant; flowers white or cream, sometimes flushed mauve. Fruiting head spherical. Involucel 2-2,5 mm, pilose; pits oblong, 1 mm long; ribs between pits not sulcate; corona 1-1,5 mm with 20-26 excurrent nerves. Calyx very shortly stipitate; setae 4,5-6 mm. Fl. 5-9. Waste places, fields, steppe, stony slopes, s.l.-2500 m.
S. Europe , S. Russia, Caucasus, Crimea, W. Syria, N. Iraq, N. Iran.