Eritrichium aretioides, (Cham.) DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 117

4. E. aretioides (Cham.) DC. , Prodr. 10: 125 (1846).

Forming large cushions or mats up to 25 cm in diameter, densely grey- or whitish-villous. Stems 1—8(—10) cm, erect, simple. Leaves 3-12 x 1-3 mm, elliptical to oblanceolate. Inflorescence simple, with 1-6 flowers; pedicels 1-3 mm. Calyx c. 2 mm in flower, c. 3 mm in fruit. Corolla 4-5-5 mm; limb 4-7-5 mm in diameter, violet, becoming bright blue. Nutlets c. 1-5x2 mm, obovoidturbinate; upper surface smooth, glabrous; margin with a narrow, denticulate wing; sides making an acute angle at point of attachment of the nutlet. Gravelly places and sandy seashores. Arctic Russia (Vajgac, N. Ural). Rs(N). (Arctic Siberia, Alaska.)