Echinops ritro | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Echinops |
Species: | E. ritro
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Binomial name | |
Echinops ritro
L. 1753 not Georgi 1775
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Synonyms [1] | |
Synonymy
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Echinops ritro, the southern globethistle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southern and eastern Europe (from Spain east to Turkey, Ukraine, and Belarus), and western Asia. [2] The species is sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in Canada and the United States. [3] [4]
It is a compact, bushy herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to 60 cm (24 in) tall, with broad prickly leaves and bearing globes of steel-blue flowers 2.5 cm - 4.5 cm in diameter, in late summer. [5]
Echinops ritro [6] and the subspecies E. ritro subsp. ruthenicus [7] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Echinops ritro | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Echinops |
Species: | E. ritro
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Binomial name | |
Echinops ritro
L. 1753 not Georgi 1775
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Synonyms [1] | |
Synonymy
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Echinops ritro, the southern globethistle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southern and eastern Europe (from Spain east to Turkey, Ukraine, and Belarus), and western Asia. [2] The species is sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in Canada and the United States. [3] [4]
It is a compact, bushy herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to 60 cm (24 in) tall, with broad prickly leaves and bearing globes of steel-blue flowers 2.5 cm - 4.5 cm in diameter, in late summer. [5]
Echinops ritro [6] and the subspecies E. ritro subsp. ruthenicus [7] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.