Cousinia bicolor

Alaca kızan

Perennial, 10-40 cm, much branched, bushy, many-headed. Stems slender, adpressed woolly-tomentose, ± soon glabrescent. Leaves arachnoid and glab-rescent above, densely white-tomentose below, prickly; basal leaves oblong to lanceolate, 8-20x3-7 cm, pinnatipartite, with 6-10 pairs of linear-lanceolate to linear segments; stem leaves shortly decurrent , lower ones oblong, 5-10 x 3-4 cm, pinnatipartite, with 4-6 pairs of segments, upper oneslanceolate, up to 3 x 1 cm, toothed. Capitula 15-28-fiowered. Involucre ovoid, 1.2-2 cm broad incl. spines; phyllaries 60-100, ± arachnoid and soon glabrescent, with ovate-lanceolate base and c. 2 mm long spreading part, lower ones reflexed and hooked, others spreading, curved or straight. Bristles of receptacle smooth. Flowers yellow, 11-15 mm. Achenes light brown, often with dark brown spots, obovate, 5x2 mm, striped lengthwise, truncate and conspicuously denticulate at apex. Fl. 6-8. Steppe, 1300-1930 m.

Endemic, Ir.-Tur. element.