Eryngium pyramidale
Eryngium pyramidale
Sivri boğadikeni
Large, glaucescent perennial . Stems about 1,5 m, pyramidally branched. Basal leaves ± persistent and coriaceous, 25-40 cm long, simple, tripartite or even pinnatisect into decurrent obovate segments with a serrate- or crenate-spinulose margin. Cauline leaves oblong, serrate , the uppermost inflorescence leaves small and palmatifid. Inflorescence large, lax, ivory, branched; capitula subsessile and pedunculate, subglobose, 1,5-2,5 cm diam. Bracts 5-9, lanceolate, pungent, several-spined at the base. Bracteoles longer than flowers, the outer tricuspidate, the inner entire. Fl. 7-8. Dry eroded banks, ruins, 500-1500 m.
N. Iraq, W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
