Bombycilaena erecta (L.) Smoljan.

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Taxonomy: Fam. Compositae// Genus: Bombycilaena// Species: Bombycilaena erecta (L.) Smoljan.

Lifeform: Annual plant. Therophyte according to the Raunkiaer system.

Distribution: Native from Central and South Europe to Afghanistan; Northwest Africa according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat: Open and dry habitats- pastures, clearings of forests.

Flowering period: Summer: JUN.

Locality: Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica. Date: 05.07.2026.

Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with capitula and leaves. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with leaves. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with leaves. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with leaves. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – stem with leaves. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 05.07.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

Locality: Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica. Date: 25.05.2026.

Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – flowering stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – flowering stems with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – flowering stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – flowering stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – flowering stem with capitula. Probishtip: village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

Scaled immages. Specimens from Probishtip, village of Shtalkovica. Collected: 25.05.2026.

Bombycilaena erecta – habit. Scale in cm. Specimen from Probishtip, village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta – capitula (upper row) and stem with leaves (lower row). Scale in mm. Specimen from Probishtip, village of Shtalkovica, 25.05.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Bombycilaena erecta. A, B, C and D: close-up of capitula; i- inner sterile floret; f- female floret; E- inner florets; F: inner saccate involucral bract; G: outer smaller involucral bract. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

References:

Bombycilaena erecta. Greuter, W. 2006+: Compositae (pro parte majore). – In: Greuter, W. & Raab-Straube, E. von, Compositae. Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published at https://europlusmed.org/. https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b3101b06-ef86-4120-9209-c0d6791bfe9a [Accessed 15.08.2026].

Bombycilaena erecta (L.) Smoljan. Plants of the World Online portal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:185802-1 [Accessed 15.08.2026].

Holub, J. 1976. Bombycilaena (DC.) Smolj. In Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. (eds.), Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 125.