Valerianella carinata
Valerianella carinata
Sandal kuzugevreği
Height 5-30 cm, lower leaves often present in ripe fruit. Leaves 10-15 x 1-10 mm, entire or sinuate-dentate, oblong to spathulate. Inflorescence ± hemispherical in flower, loosely globular in fruit. Bracts herbaceous, conspicuous, 5-15 x 1-4 mm, linear, oblanceolate or oblong. Flowers white, or more usually bluish, rarely lilac. Calyx absent. Fruit deciduous, 2-2,7 x 0,7-1 mm. Fl. 4-6. Stony slopes, woodland, 50-2190 m.
W., C. & S. Europe, Transcaucasia, Crimea, W. Syria, N. Iraq, S. Iran, N. Africa.
