Pagina 223 - Flora of the Southern Carnic Alps

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729
Plant without spines,
but covered by dense,
stiff, stinging hairs
Echium vulgare L.
subsp. vulgare
729 Plant with spines on
stems or leaves 730
730
All leaves < 1 cm
wide. Flowers yellow,
arranged in racemes.
Fruit a legume
Genista germanica
L.
730
Leaves (at least basal
ones) > 1 cm wide.
Flowers not yellow,
arranged in heads.
Fruit an achene
731
731
Leaves green above,
white-hairy on the
underside
Cirsium
heterophyllum (L.)
Hill
731
Leaves of a similar
colour and hairiness
on both sides
732
732
Heads at least partly
blue/amethist in
colour, with numerous
radiating bracts. Basal
leaves entire and
heart-shaped at base
Eryngium alpinum
L.