''Cheirolophus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family
Asteraceae
Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
first described as a genus in 1827. It is native to the western
Mediterranean Region from the Canary Islands and Madeira, through Morocco and Algeria, continental Portugal and Spain, southern France, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sicily and Malta.
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Asteraceae genera
Cardueae