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They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are distributed from central Asia, Mongolia and north-eastern China to the Mediterranean basin, temperate regions of Eurasia, reaching to Indian subcontinent and tropical Africa. [2] [3] Globe thistle is the host plant of weevils Larinus vulpes and Larinus onopordi. [4]
Echinops bannaticus, known as the blue globe-thistle, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southeastern Europe. It is an herbaceous perennial thistle , growing to 120 cm (47 in), with prickly foliage and spherical blue flower heads in summer.
Cicerbita is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are known commonly as blue sow thistles . [ 3 ] The word Cicerbita is from the Italian , meaning "chickory-like", a comparison to Cichorium , the chicory genus.
Cicerbita alpina, commonly known as the alpine sow-thistle or alpine blue-sow-thistle [4] is a perennial herbaceous species of plant sometimes placed in the genus Cicerbita of the family Asteraceae, and sometimes placed in the genus Lactuca as Lactuca alpina. [5] It is native to upland and mountainous parts of Europe.
Milk thistle flowerhead Cirsium arizonicum, showing arachnoid cobwebbiness on stems and leaves, with ants attending aphids that might be taking advantage of the shelter. Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp spikes on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all ...
Cicerbita macrophylla (synonym Lactuca macrophylla), [1] commonly known as common blue-sow-thistle, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Gallery [ edit ]
Various butterflies and burnet moths on a flower of Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus, in the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden, Trenta, Bovec, Slovenia. 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]
Eryngium planum, the blue eryngo [1] or flat sea holly, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the area that includes central and southeastern Europe and central Asia. It is an herbaceous perennial thistle growing to 50 cm (20 in) with branched silvery-blue stems, and numerous small blue conical flowerheads surrounded ...