Eryngium glomeratum
Eryngium glomeratum
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Glaucous, many-stemmed perennial. Stems 30-60 cm, densely leaved. Basal leaves withered at flowering time, 6-10 cm, bipinnatisect below and bipinnatifid above, segments dentate-spinulose. Cauline leaves with a broad, entire, parallel-veined, vaginate petiole, lamina very deeply pinnatifid with a spinulose rachis and rigid, linear-lanceolate, entire or spinulose lobes. Inflorescence an oblong, thyrsoid panicle; capitula many, small, ovoid-globose, 6-10 mm diam. Bracts 5-6, linear-subulate, triquetrous, pungent, entire or remotely spinulose, 1 ½ - 6 x capitulum. Bracteoles all entire, shorter or longer than sepals. Fl. 7-9. Rocky places, phrygana, tufa cliffs, disturbed steppe, s.l.-1600 m.
Aegean, W. Syria, Cyprus, N. Iraq.
