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Gundelia
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Gundelia

Gundelia is a low to high (20–100 cm) thistle-like perennial herbaceous plant with latex, spiny compound inflorescences, reminiscent of teasles and eryngos, that contain cream, yellow, greenish, pink, purple or redish-purple disk florets. It is assigned to the daisy family. Flowers can be found from February to May. The stems of this plant dry-out when the seeds are ripe and break free from the underground root, and are then blown away like a tumbleweed, thus spreading the...

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17 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Tumble Thistle

speciesGundelia tournefortii

Gundelia tehranica

speciesGundelia tehranica

Gundelia rosea

speciesGundelia rosea

Gundelia anatolica

speciesGundelia anatolica

Gundelia komagenensis

speciesGundelia komagenensis

Gundelia dersim

speciesGundelia dersim

Gundelia armeniaca

speciesGundelia armeniaca

Gundelia vitekii

speciesGundelia vitekii

Gundelia cappadocica

speciesGundelia cappadocica

Gundelia colemerikensis

speciesGundelia colemerikensis

Gundelia munzuriensis

speciesGundelia munzuriensis

Gundelia cilicica

speciesGundelia cilicica

Gundelia mesopotamica

speciesGundelia mesopotamica

Gundelia aragatsi

speciesGundelia aragatsi

Gundelia asperrima

speciesGundelia asperrima

Gundelia siirtica

speciesGundelia siirtica

Gundelia microcephala

speciesGundelia microcephala

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Gundelia in Elements of Botany

Elements of Botany

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.237

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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 69663.