Family Composite

Height: plant up to 60 cm high, glandular

Leaves: oval basals, with 5 ribs, petioled; cauline leaves 1-2 pairs, sessile, smaller

Flowers: long, ligulate, radiant flowers

Fruit: fruit with pappus

Habitat: meadows and poor pastures, moorlands, high drying-out peat moors; it avoids calcareous soils