Hieracium sphaerocephalum, Froelich

25. H. sphaerocephalum Froelich View in CoL in Moessler, Handb. ed. 2, 2: 1386 (1828).

Stolons absent or rarely short and thick. Rosetteleaves 20-80 x 6-14 mm, narrowly elliptical or narrowly oblanceolate, usually more or less acute, entire, gradually narrowed at base, glaucous, with few to numerous, rigid, long simple eglandular hairs, few to numerous stellate hairs mainly beneath, and few to numerous, minute glandular hairs. Flowering stems 9-30 cm, with numerous, long, rigid simple eglandular hairs, few to numerous stellate hairs, few to numerous, long, dark glandular hairs and few to numerous, minute, yellowish glandular hairs. Inflorescence lax; capitula (1—)2—4(—7); peduncles long. Invo­ lerai bracts 8-11 x 1-1-5 mm, broadly linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, with numerous stellate, numerous, long simple eglandular and few to numerous, dark glandular hairs. Ligules yellow, rarely with some red at apex. • E.&E.C. Alps. Au Ge He It Ju.

This taxon is considered by Zahn to be intermediate between H. glaciale and H. hoppeanum , but it often occurs in fairly uniform populations without the parents and is best treated as a species.