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Echinops
''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe, east to central Asia, and south to the mountains of tropical Africa. Globe thistle is the host plant of weevil '' Larinus vulpes''.''Skuhrovec, J., Volovnik, S. & Gosik, R. '' Description of the immature stages of ''Larinus vulpes'' (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae) and notes on its biology. Zookeys, 2017, № 679, pp. 107—137 — https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/12560/ Species Species include: *''Echinops adenocaulos'' *'' Echinops bannaticus'' *''Echinops chantavicus'' *'' Echinops echinatus'' *''Echinops exaltatus'' *''Echinops giganteus'' *''Echinops gmelinii'' *''Echinops graecus'' *''Echinops humilis'' *''Echinops latifolius'' *''Echinops longisetus'' *''Echinops nivens'' *''Echinops niveus'' *''Echinops orientalis'' *''Echinops rit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echinops Sphaerocephalus
''Echinops sphaerocephalus'', known by the common names glandular globe-thistle, great globe-thistle or pale globe-thistle, is a Eurasian species of globe-thistle belonging to the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. Description ''Echinops sphaerocephalus'' is a glandular, woolly perennial herbaceous plant with an average height of , occasionally reaching 200 cm (80 inches). Its erect branching, gray, slightly wrinkled and hairy stems bear the occasional large, soft, sharply toothed, sharp-lobed pointed green leaves. They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below. Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with white or blue-gray disc florets. It flowers from June until September. The flowers are pollinated by insects (usually bees, wasps and butterflies) ( entomogamy) and are hermaphrodite (self fertilization or autogamy). The fruits are hairy cylindrical achenes about 7 to 8 mm long. They ripen fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echinops Spinosissimus
''Echinops spinosissimus'' is a European species of plant in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to southeastern Europe (Sicily, Apulia, Greece, Albania, and the western Balkans), northern Africa, and southwest Asia as far east as Iran. ''Echinops spinosissimus'' is a branching perennial herb up to 80 cm (2 feet) tall. Leaves are divided into narrow triangular lobes, each with a slender but hard spine at the tip. The plant produces nearly spherical flower heads containing many white or pale lavender disc florets but no ray florets. in Czech
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Echinops Ritro
''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. The species is sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in Canada and the United States. ''Echinops ritro'' is a compact, bushy herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to tall, with broad prickly leaves and bearing globes of steel-blue flowers 2.5 cm - 4.5 cm in diameter, in late summer. ''Echinops ritro'' and the subspecies ''E. ritro'' subsp. ''ruthenicus'' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. History The Award of Garden Merit .... ;Subspecies *''Echinops ritro'' subsp. ''meyeri'' (DC.) Kožuharov *''Echinops ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
