Hieracium caesioides

130. H. caesioides group ( H. bifidum / pictum ). Stems (10-)20- 40(-50) cm, more or less glaucous, often spotted, with stellate hairs, simple eglandular hairs and few or no glandular hairs. Leaves with more or less numerous eglandular hairs, those of the margin rigid, curved and distinctly dentate, with more or less numerous stellate hairs beneath and few or no minute glandular hairs on the margin; basal 25-65 x 15-30 mm, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, obtuse to acute, more or less dentate; cauline 0-2, narrower than the basal. Capitula 1-numerous; peduncles with stellate and more or less numerous simple eglandular hairs, sometimes with a few glandular hairs. Involucre 10-14x9-11 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, with more or less numerous stellate and simple eglandular hairs and few to numerous glandular hairs. Stigmas usually yellow. 1000-2400 m. • S.W. Alps; Corse. Co Ga He It.

Included species:

H. caesioides Arvet-Touvet , Suppl. Monogr. Hier. 15 (1876). S.W. Alps. G alt.

H. rionii Gremii , Neue Beitr. FI. Schweiz 3: 16 (1883). S.W. Alps; Corse. Co Ga He It.