Hypecoum littorale Wulfen  

Hypecoum littorale ♦

Annual herb, 10-40 cm long, green or glaucous. Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, the ultimate lobes linear acute. Inflorescence 5- 15 flowered. Sepals 3-4 mm long, 1-1.5mm, persistent. Petals yellow, the outer petals rhomboid, entire, not lobed, 6-8.5 mm long, 2-4.5 mm broad; inner  petals without black spots, the lateral lobes1/2 as long as the lamina  of the central lobe,  the central lobe 1.2 mm long, 1.5mm wide, the filament linear without black spots. Fruit 1-2 mm diameter, erect, compressed, slightly arcuate, not thickened at septa. Seeds dark brown