Achillea adeniae
Achillea adeniae
Perennial herb with woody rootstocks. Stems procumbent, numerous, 30–40 cm long, with short sterile shoots, unbranched, terete, obtusely fourangled, adpressed to subadpressed tomentose. Leaves homomorphic, wooly-tomentose, linear, median cauline ones 7–16 × 1–2 mm, pinnatisect, with ovate lanceolate, 1–3-denticulate, apiculate segments 0.5–1 mm, undivided. Peduncles 5–7 cm. Capitula 1 per stem, globose to hemispherical and depressed, 10–12 × 8–10 mm, broadly rounded at base. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, outer ones 10–12 mm, ovate-oblong, median ones oblong-orbicular, inner ones lanceolate, all phyllaries scarious-margined, outers ones pannose on middle vein. Receptacle paleaceous; palea 5–6 mm, linear-lanceolate, membranaceous. Ligules 6–8, white, 10–12 mm long, with three lobes; tube 3–4 mm, lobes 7–8 mm, oblanceolate; anthers yellow, slightly exerted from tube. Disc flowers cream, 50–70, 3.5–4 mm, slightly exerted from involucres; style brownish, 1–2 mm, stigma two-partite as long as style. Cypselae oblong, 2–3 mm, compressed dorsally. Pappus absent. Fl & fr. 5–6, steppe, calcareous slopes, 1500–1650 m.
Endemic.