Pagina 370 - Flora of the Southern Carnic Alps

370
1215
Calyx green. Leaves
covered by rigid,
stinging hairs
Echium vulgare L.
subsp. vulgare
1215
Calyx petaloid. Leaves
hairless or with soft
hairs
1216
1216
Flowers pink/violet to
white. Median bracts
of inflorescence twice
as long as the flower
pedicels (warning:
bracts tend to fall
early!)
Polygala nicaeensis
W.D.J. Koch
subsp. carniolica
(A. Kern.) Graebn.
1216
Flowers usually blue.
Bracts of the same
length as the pedicels
or shorter
1217
1217 Lower leaves larger
than the upper ones
Polygala alpestris
Rchb.
1217 Lower leaves smaller
than the upper ones
1218