Picris barbarorum

Annual, 5–60 cm high, with sparse simple and mainly 2-fid hooked hairs; stems much-branched at base or above. Basal leaves petiolate, narrow-obovate to oblanceolate, 4–30 cm long, 0.4–2.5 cm wide, obtuse to acute, base attenuate, margins entire to dentate; cauline leaves sessile, numerous, resembling lower ones but bases truncate to cordate, reducing toward inforescence and bract-like on peduncles. Peduncles with 0–2 bracts close below capitulum. Involucre 5–8 mm diam.; involucral bracts 2–15 mm long; outer bracts often tomentose along midrib or apical margins, with a complete or incomplete line of simple or 2-fid hooked hairs 3–7 mm long along midrib. Ligules 8–12.5 mm long. Cypselas mostly 4–7.5 mm long, beak usually shorter than body; pappus 5.5–7 mm long Flowers mostly Jul.–Nov.