Scorzonera incisa

Kanık

Erect caulescent perennial, 25-40 cm; rootstock cylindrical, crowned by dead petiole remains. Basal leaves dentate to pinnatifid, 10-23 x 2.4-8 cm ; lamina narrowly to broadly elliptic in outline, irregularly and sparsely arachnoid-pubescent, usually abruptly contracted below into a 2-5 cm petiole. Stem leaves at most c. 1/2 size of basal leaves. Capitula 1-2 per stem, 40-50 mm long. Inner phyllaries c. 25 mm. Flowers yellow with dark purple tube. Achenes 12-17 mm, deeply sulcate, with warty wings, sometimes swollen above base so appearing pyriform and stipitate, glabrous; pappus dirty white, hairs short and plumose or longer, barbellate above and plumose below. Fl. 5-7. Cultivated ground, grassy places, 450-2350 m.
Soviet Armenia, N.W. Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.