Scrophulariaceae

V. triphyllos L., Sp. Pl. 14(1753). Ic: Jáv. & Csap., Ic. Fl. Hung. 463, f. 3309 (1934); Hegi, I11. Fl. Mittel-Eur. ed. 2,6(1): t. 239 f. 7(1968). Figures 22, p. 691:
23, p. 693.
Erect annual 5-13(-2O) cm, usually with several long, spreading, ascending branches. Stems often tinged blue, densely puberulent with patent or retrorse straight hairs (0.05-0.2 mm), intermingled with scattered longer glandular hairs. Leaves petiolate (petiole 1-3 mm), dark green, often purple-violet beneath, ± sparsely pubescent, often glandular; lamina of lower leaves ovate to triangular, 5-7x3-6 mm, coarsely crenate, of upper 8-12x8-12 mm in outline, deeply pal-mately 5(-7)-pinnatifid, central lobe suborbicular to spathulate, lateral linear-oblong, obtuse. Racemes lax, 6-15-flowered, densely eglandular-puberulent and glandular-pubescent (hairs 0.2-0.5 mm, glands dark). Petiole of bracts 1-2 mm; lower bracts deeply 5-palmatifid, upper 3-fid with linear-subspathulate lobes, glandular-pubescent. Pedicels 4-11(-13) mm, 0.5-1 x bracts, patent or ± arcuate-ascending. Calyx 4-6(-8) mm in fruit, lobes linear-oblanceolate, sometimes with basal teeth, glandular-pubescent. Corolla deep blue. 5-9 mm diam. Style 0.9-1.3 mm, subequalling sinus. Capsule suberect, transversely elliptic, slightly inflated, 4-5(-5.5) x 5-6.5(-7) mm, subequalling calyx, glandular-pubescent near keel, otherwise subglabrous, base truncate, sinus acute (0.15-0.27 x capsule length). Seeds suborbicular, 1 .3-2 x 0.9-2 mm, thin, cymbiform, slightly rugulose, dark brown or blackish. Fl. 3-5. Pimıs forests, stony pastures, rocky hills, banks, sandy fields, gardens, roadsides, 100-2000 m.
Described from N. Europe (Hb. Linn. 26/62, photo!).
Widespread, but absent in E. Anatolia. Al(E) Edirne: 8 km W. of Edirne, 100 m, D. 41924! A4 Ankara: Kepekli boğazi, Düzenli 203! A5 Amasya: nr Amasya, c. 400 m, Bornm. 1889:784! A7 Gümüşane: Taltaban, Sint. 1894:5428! Bl Çanakkale: Kalifatli, Sint. 1883:252! B2 Balikesir: Bigadiç, 150 m, D. 25139! B3 Afyon: Bayat, Yelekkaya Tepe to Erdenalani Tepe. 1500 m, Vural 181! B4 Ankara: Ankara to Şereflikoçhisar, 2 km N. of small lake N. of Tuz G., 1000 m, Coode & Jones 105! B5 Kayseri: nr Ürgüp, Topuzdaği pass, 1300 rn, Coode & Jones 1282! C2 Aydin: d. Karacasu, Geyre; 600-700 m, D. 41598! C3 Antalya: Korkuteli to Kizilcadağ. 27 km from Korkuteli, 1630 m, A.Baytop (ISTE 34723)! C4 Içel: Mut, Mağras Da., 1400 m. Coode & Jones 776! C5 Niğde/Adana: Ulukişla to Pozanti, 900 m. D. 26302! C6 Gaziantep: Gaziantep, 800 m. Balls 808! Europe. Probably native in Anatolia.