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Echinops polyceras
Echinops polyceras is a Eurasian species of globe-thistle belonging to the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.
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Description
Echinops polyceras is a hemicryptophyte, its spinescence represented by bracts and leaves. It is non-succulent, and perennial. The leaves are alternately placed, one leaf per node, and rosette. The leaves are dissected, pinnate or bipinnate. Stipule is absent. Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 8 cm in diameter, often having radial, long, thorny projections. The florescence comprises dark blue florets. It flowers from March to June. It produces fruits from April to July, and disperses seeds from July to November.
Range & habitat
Its habitat is batha (garrigue, phrygana), desert slopes, hard rock outcrops, and shrub-steppes.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
What it does
Drought resistance: Echinops polyceras is salt resistant and is a glycophyte. It could be synanthropic as well as mostly natural.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
In human culture
It is also known by other common names as spiny globe-thistle, and Blanche globe-thistle
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 492837.