Cerinthe glabra
Cerinthe glabra
Ssp glabra: Çobansüzeği
Perennial. Stems ascending to erect, 14-50 cm, usually much-branched. Basal leaves narrowly elliptic, lamina to 12 x 3.5 cm, obtuse, attenuate into 4-6 cm, petiole; cauline ovate to oblong, to 7 x 3.2 cm, obtuse, sessile, cordate-amplexicaul. Bracts usually greenish. Calyx divided to ½ or almost to base, lobes lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla with yellow lobes and yellow to greenish-yellow tube with purple band around throat, 12-14 x 3.5-4.5 mm, lobes broadly ovate, erect to recurved. Nutlets dark brown, ovoid-acuminate, c. 4 x 3 mm sharply beaked, keeled ventrally and in upper ½ dorsally. Fl. 6-8. Pinus sylvestris and Abies forest, roadsides, rock ledges, limestone slopes, 1600-3300 m.
C. & S. Europe, Balkans, Caucasia. Euro-Sib. element.
