Jurinea consanguinea DC. ssp. arachnoidea (Bunge) Kozuharov

A north Balkan and west / north Pontic species with four subspecies, three of them narrow endemic in the northern Balkans and ssp. arachnoidea with the largest range.

Nice pictures with this species taken in the steppes north from the Black Sea can be seen here.

Baragan Plain steppe, in the xeric remnant grasslands from the steep front of the fluvial terrace of ialomita river, above the western entrance of the village of Gambasani (Ialomita county), May 2012,

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net