Valerianella eriocarpa

Suberect or decumbent rosetted herb with branches to c. 35 cm long; branches with short bristly hairs mainly along ridges. Rosette leaves petiolate, oblanceolate-spathulate, mostly 2.5–7 cm long and 0.5–2.5 cm wide, obtuse, glabrous except for a few hairs on margins and veins, entire or sinuate; upper leaves sessile, becoming oblong-lanceolate, often with stem-clasping basal lobes, often coarsely toothed near inflorescence. Inflorescences of 1–several corymb-like dichasia, 1–20-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, green, clasping flowers and fruit. Calyx obliquely cup-shaped, c. 1 mm long, with 1–6 subequal lobes, enlarging in fruit; corolla blue or white, tube funnel-shaped, to c. 1 mm long, lobes oblong-lanceolate, c. 1 mm long, subequal; stigma with 3 short thread-like branches. Cypsela oblong, c. 1 mm long, slightly compressed, ridged on one side, hispid with spreading or hooked hairs, surmounted by sharply pointed and sometimes toothed calyx. Flowers mainly Oct. and Nov.