
Appearance
Perennial plant. The rhizome short. Stems 25 - 60 cm tall, erect, shallow to unclear longitudinally striated, branched only in the area of the inflorescence, covered with leaves along their entire length, diluted spider web similar fibrous, often reddish. The leaves are rapidly decreasing in size from the bottom to the top, diluted spider web similar fibrous up to almost nude, sometimes on the edge glandular groin; the leaf blade of the basal and lower stem leaves 5 - 10 cm long, 1.5 - 4.5 cm wide, ovate to oblong elliptical, large toothed to cut at the base, with almost equal or to 2 (2.5) times longer petiole; the upper stem leaves sitting down, lance, feather-like cut up to lyre similar, with ears in the base. Baskets (1) 2 - 8, fresh in flowering 30 - 40 mm wide, collected in thyroid inflorescence.The wrap 7 - 9 (10) mm long, 9 - 13 (15) mm wide, panicked. The bract leaflets are 5 - 8, 4 - 6 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, linearly lance, overlapping the wrap from 1/2 to 2/3 of the its length. The wrap leaflets are 18 - 22, 7 - 9 mm long, 1 - 2 mm wide, lance, purple, spider web similar fibrous (at the base thicker) to almost nude, on the edge purple tunics, grooves in the upper part. The tongue similar flowers are 16 - 20, 10 - 14 mm long, the little tongue 8 - 11 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, elliptical or elliptic lance, tops shallow toothed to almost entire, orange or reddish. Fruit trees 2,5 - 3 mm long, naked; kite 5 - 6 mm, dirty white.
Distribution
Bulgaria, Serbia and the Republic of Northern Macedonia. Balkan endemic.References:
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From "Flora of the Republic of Bulgaria" by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.