Description: Annual to perennia with stems 12-80cm, sparingly to much-branched, with sparse to dense star shaped and short simple eglandular hairs, and sometimes glandular hairs above; leaves 20-80 × 3-30mm, with dense star shaped and short eglandular hairs, linear, oblanceolate, lanceolate or ovate, obtuse to acute, entire to deeply pinnatisect, the lower usually narrowed at base, the upper usually broader and sometimes somwwhat clasping the stem; basal leaves usually few, the stem ones numerous. Phyllaries 7-11 × 5-10mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, with dense star shaped and short simply eglandular hairs and long glandular hairs. Fruits dry, 1-seeded, about 1.5mm.

Poison: None Known

Distribution: Algeria,  Andorra,  Azores,  Corsica,  France,  Gibraltar,  Greece,  Italy,  Libya,  Malta,