Helianthemum lavandulifolium, Miller Helianthemum squamatum, (L.) Pers.

1. H. lavandulifolium Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 13 (1768)

( H. racemosum Pers .).

Small shrub 10-50 cm, densely greytomentose. Leaves 10-50x 3-8 mm, lanceolate to linearlanceolate, acute, with revolute margins, greyish-green and appressed-tomentose above, white-tomentose beneath. Stipules sometimes caducous. Flowers many, in dense cymes divided from the base into 3-5 branches. Petals 5-10 mm, yellow. Capsule shorter than calyx. 2« = 20. Calcicole. Mediterranean region. CrGaGrHsItJuTu.

2. H. squamatum (L.) Pers. View in CoL , Syn. Pl. 2: 78 (1806).

Small densely caespitose shrub 10-30 cm, densely covered with sessile, silvery peltate scales. Leaves 10-30 x 3-10 mm, lanceolate to oblanceolate- or linear-spathulate, fleshy, with flat margins. Stipules about as long as the petiole, subulate to linear-lanceolate, caducous. Inflorescence usually branched from base into usually 3 long-pedunculate, dense, more or less capitate cymes. Petals only slightly longer than the sepals, yellow with a dark spot at the base. 2« =10. Gypsum soils . E., C. & S. Spain. Hs.