Scabiosa columbaria
Scabiosa columbaria
Ssp columbaria: Uyuzotu; Ssp ochroleuca: Sarı uyuzotu; Ssp paphlagonica: Köse uyuzotu
Perennial , stems glabrous or pubescent, often pilose below, reflexed-pubescent above, 30-80 cm. Leaves of sterile shoots, and lower leaves petiolate, lanceolate, oblong or obovate, crenate, dentate or lyrate, rarely entire, glabrous, sparsely or densely pubescent to pannose; upper leaves sessile, 1-2-pinnatisect, segments ovate to linear, entire or dentate. Involucral bracts 8-11, linear, usually shorter than flowers. Capitula 1-5-3 cm diam., ± radiant; flowers lilac, pink, pale yellow or cream, occasionally white, outer flowers with entire petals. Fruiting head spherical or ovoid. Involucel 2-3.5 mm, 8-grooved with hairy ribs; corona c. 1-5 mm with 16-22 nerves. Calyx shortly stipitate; setae 3.5-9 mm long.
1. Plant glabrous …………………………………….subsp. paphlagonica
1. Plant hairy
2. Flowers pink or lilac …………………………subsp. columbaria
3. Lower leaves pubescent ……………….…………var. columbaria
3. Lower leaves pannose …………………….………..var. intermedia
2. Flowers yellow or cream …………………..subsp. ochroleuca
4. Lower leaves pubescent …………………….var. ochroleuca
4. Lower leaves pannose ……………………………..var. webbiana
