Name: Eritrichium pedunculare.
Genus: 58 species.
Region: Asia, East Europe.
Use: leaves as food.
BotanyHerbs; perennial, biennial, rarely annual.
Stems: single or several and cespitose, erect to diffuse, hispid or pilose, rarely glabrous.
Inflorescence: cymes, solitary or dichotomously branched, ebracteate or lower pedicels bracteate, rarely all bracteate.
Flowers: extra-axillary; calyx 5-lobed or 5-parted, not enlarged or slightly enlarged in fruit; corolla blue or white; tube usually shorter than calyx; throat appendages 4, lunate or trapeziform; lobes 5, spreading, overlapping; stamens included; anthers oblong to elliptic. Ovary 4-parted. Style linear, usually shorter than corolla tube; stigma included, capitate. Gynobase flat.
Fruit: nutlets 4; semiglobose-tetrahedral or subulate trigonous-tetrahedral; shiny, glabrous or pubescent, rarely tuberculate; adaxial 3 surfaces subequal in size or bottom smaller than 2 lateral surfaces, longitudinal vein at juncture of 2 lateral surfaces, sessile or with a short carpophore from corner of 3 adaxial surfaces, abaxial surfaces flattened or convex, acute or obtuse ribbed, rarely narrow winged; attachment scar at bottom of carpophore or at corner of 3 adaxial surfaces when sessile; embryo vertical; cotyledon ovate.