Perennial plant with creeping rootstock, stems 10-60 cm tall. Leaves vary from densely tomentose, sometimes glabrescent. Involucre 15-22 x 8-15 mm, flowers 5-8. Appendages small to medium-sized, with dark brown border
Medium-sized pine reaching 20-35 meters in height. Leaves are 10-16 cm long, dark green to yellow-green. Bark is thin red-orange, maturing to grey-brown to orange. Male cones are squat, 15-20 mm long. Female cones are short, 5-10 cm long, maturing to red-orange
Turkey has about 9300 vascular plant species, 24% more than Europe. One-third of Turkish plant species are endemic. Anatolian mountains form fragmented archipelagos-like landscape. Anatolian diagonal divides flora from east to west
Turkey has approximately 249 Verbascum species and 22 hybrids. Several species are endemic to Turkey. The list includes endemic species like adenocarpum, adenocaulon, and adenophorum
Dioscorides established medicinal botany in 78 AD with 600 plant-based drugs. Traditional medicine knowledge in Turkey dates back to ancient civilizations. Materia Medica is considered oldest comprehensive document on Anatolian folk medicine