Onosma isaurica
Onosma isaurica
Kül emcek
Perennial. Stems 15-40 cm, erect, branched or simple, adpressed setose, setae usually without basal tubercles. Leaves acute to obtuse, lanceolate to oblong or basal and lower cauline sometimes spathulate, all petiolate, 30-80 x 5-20 mm, greyish-white with adpressed setae on tiny, densely stellate-hairy tubercles or rather laxly setose on larger, white tubercles. Inflorescence of ± numerous terminal and lateral cymes. Bracts very small, narrowly linear. Pedicels to 4 mm in flower, to 10 mm in fruit. Calyx 13-15 mm in flower, 24-25 mm in fruit, lobes linear, usually coherent at base. Corolla bright to pale yellow at first, becoming cream to whitish, 18-24 mm, narrowly campanulate, minutely pubescent. Anthers included or with sterile tips exserted, shorter than filaments. Nutlets 3·5-4 mm, with short rounded beak and indistinct dorsal keel, brownish. Fl. 5-9. Rocky slopes, scree, Pinus and Quercus woodland, steppe etc., 300-3000 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
