Eryngium billardieri
Eryngium billardieri
Hıyarok
Rigid perennial with fibrous collars. Stems several, 40-75 cm, laxly branched from about the middle. Basal leaves persistent, coriaceous, glaucous, petiole not spiny, lamina triangular to suborbicular in outline, 7-15 cm long and broad, ternate with bipinnatifid primary segments, the lobes and winged rachis dentate-spinose. Cauline leaves smaller, the median and upper ones broad, subamplexicaul with spiny-margined base, those of the inflorescenpe tripartite. Inflorescence pale glaucous to amethyst, loosely paniculate with slender ascending branches; capitula numerous , globose, 9-17 mm diam. Bracts 5-7, linear-lanceolate, pungent, 3-nerved, ± recurved, entire or remotely spinulose, 1,5-3 x capitulum. Bracteoles longer than sepals, all entire, or the outermost tricuspidate. Mericarps covered with ovate, obtuse to acute scales. Fl. 7-8. Rocky slopes, steppe, fallow fields, 1400-3810 m, locally dominant.
Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, Soviet Armenia, N., N.W., and W. Iran, N. Iraq, Afghanistan, W. Pakistan, Kashmir. Ir.-Tur. element.
