Leontodon montanus, Lam.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 311

3. L. montanus Lam. , Fl. Fr. 3: 640 (1779).

Perennial with oblique or vertical, truncate stock. Stems l-2(-4), 1-20 cm, simple, with numerous, long simple eglandular hairs; bracts 0-2. Leaves 10-90 x 3-10 mm, linear to oblanceolate, dentate to runcinate-pinnatifid, narrowed at base to a winged petiole, with few to numerous long hairs. Capitulum solitary. Involucre 9-18 x 9-14 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with dense, long simple eglandular hairs. Ligules deep yellow, concolorous. Stigmas yellow. Achenes 6-5-7-5 mm, pale brown, cylindrical or slightly fusiform, slightly narrowed at apex, weakly transversely muricate; pappus-hairs in 1 row and plumose, or in 2 rows, the outer not plumose, the inner longer and plumose. • Mountains of C. & S. Europe from the Carpathians southwards to Pyrenees, C. Appennini and Albania. Al Au Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (W). 1 Stems (3-)10-20 cm; involucre 9-12 mm; pappus-hairs yellowish (c) subsp. pseudotaraxaci 1 Stems 1-10 cm; involucre 9-18 mm; pappus-hairs white or greyish

2 Terminalsegmentofleaf8 -20mm; hairsofinvolucrepale grey (a) subsp. montanus 2 Terminal segment ofleaf 4 -10 mm; hairs ofinvolucreblackish

(b) subsp. montaniformis