Name/Όνομα: Ξεράνθεμο το κλειστόν.
Scientific name/Επιστημονικό όνομα: Xeranthemum inapertum (L0. Mill
Family/Οικογένεια: ASTERACEAE
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Description
Plant: Annual herb growing up to 30 cm high.
Stem/s: Erect, distinctly angled, greenish or glaucous green, with appressed arachnoid hairs and branched from near the base or unbranched.
Leaves: Alternate, simple, entire and sessile, covered with appressed whitish hairs, the lower oblong-obovate or oblanceolate forming a lax rosette, the upper lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, smaller with acute apex, often with deflexed margins.
Flowers: Solitary in terminal and pedunculated capitula; involucre ovoid; phyllaries in 5 series, glabrous, the phyllaries of the 2-3 lower series are broadly-ovate, apiculate, white with a narrow brown stripe dorsally, the others are oblong, longer and narrower, acuminate, with pink or purple stripe dorsally; receptacle flat; marginal florets tubular the marginal sterile the disk florets actinomorphic and hermaphrodite; stamens 5, anthers linear; ovary inferior, style 1, 2-branched.
Flowering time: February-May.
Fruit: Achenes, pappus with 5 scales.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, 200-1500 m alt.
Native: Mediterranean region to Iran and Caucasus.
