Onosma frutescens
Onosma frutescens
Sarkık emcek
Perennial, caespitose or with long subterranean branched rhizome. Stems numerous, .10-40 cm, usually ascending, simple, patent-setose, shortly hairy. Leaves crowded near stem base, 8-70 mm, lowest to c. 20 mm, linear-spathulate to lanceolate, acute to obtuse, margins revolute, sessile or very shortly petiolate, densely hispid with patent setae, sometimes also shortly hairy. Inflorescence of 1-2 rather lax cymes which become straight and elongated after flowering. Bracts very small, oblong-Ianceolate. Pedicels to 5 mm in flower, to 10 mm in fruit. Calyx 10-15 mm in flower, to 25 mm in fruit, cleft to base or with tube to 5 mm, lobes lanceolate, acute, widened after flowering, hispid with setae which are golden when dry. Corolla bright yellow at first, becoming golden, orange, reddish or brownish, 18-20 mm, cylindrical-campanulate, glabrous. Anthers almost completely exserted, longer than filaments. Nutlets 4 mm, ovoid, minutely beaked, brownish. Fl. 3-6. Crevices of limestone rocks, screes, etc., .100-1600 m.
W. Syria. E. Medit. element.
