Echinops exaltatus
| Echinops exaltatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cynareae |
| Genus: | Echinops |
| Species: | E. exaltatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinops exaltatus Schrad. 1818 not Koch 1843 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Echinops exaltatus (Russian globe thistle or tall globethistle)[2] is European species of globe thistle in the sunflower family. It is native to central and eastern Europe from Germany and Italy east into Russia.[3] The species has escaped cultivation and become established in the wild in scattered locations in eastern Canada and the northern United States.[4]
Echinops exaltatus is the largest of all Globe Thistles, a branching perennial herb up to 150 cm (60 inches or 5 feet) tall. One plant can produces several flower heads, each with a very nearly spherical array of white or pale blue disc florets but no ray florets.[2]
References
- ↑ The Plant List Echinops exaltatus Schrad.
- 1 2 Flora of North America, Tall globe-thistle, boulette de Hongrie, Echinops exaltatus Schrader, Hort. Gott. 2: 15, plate 9. 1811.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Cardo pallottola semplice, drüsenlose Kugeldistel, grå bolltistel, Echinops exaltatus Schrad.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
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