Biology:Echinops exaltatus
From HandWiki
Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Echinops exaltatus | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Echinops |
| Species: | E. exaltatus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Echinops exaltatus Schrad. 1818 not Koch 1843
| |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Echinops exaltatus, the Russian globe thistle or tall globethistle,[2] is European species of globe thistle in the family Asteraceae. 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]
Description
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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
Wikidata ☰ Q1261788 entry
 |  |
