Leaves: Basal leaves petiolate, with petioles 3–10 cm long; blades nearly round-ovate to elliptic, 6–15 × 4–10 cm, obtuse, finely crenate, with a truncate, rounded or tapering base. Cauline leaves smaller, shortly petiolate to nearly sessile, with an ovate or rounded base and a shortly acuminate apex.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers: Inflorescence branched and relatively loose. Flowers clustered in umbel-like fascicles of 2–7 in the bract axils. Bracts linear-subulate; pedicels 1–4 mm long; bracteoles linear. Calyx 2–4 mm long, with acute, linear-lanceolate lobes. Corolla yellow, 15–25 mm across, usually with translucent dots, tomentose outside, rarely glabrous. Stamens 5; anthers attached at their middle. Filaments clothed in purple-violet hairs, the two upper filaments glabrous toward their tips.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit: Capsule oblong-cylindrical, 5–8 × 3–4 mm, tomentose, becoming glabrous.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation: Dry hills and mountains. No numerical elevation range specified in Mouterde’s account.
Syrian distribution: Damas, Jabal Qasyoun, Jerijir, Ouadi Zemrani, between Ma’arrah and Baalbeck, Yabroud, Jabal Halimé, Jabal Ma’loula, Flita, Jabal Omeir; Hermon summit, Abou Nida and Buq Ata.
Native range: Lebanon-Syria.
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit: Biennial herb, 50–80 cm tall, covered with white or yellowish tomentum, becoming glabrous with age. Stems robust, cylindrical and branched.