Family: Asteraceae Genus: OnopordumSpecies description: Plant up to 300cm. Stems yellowish , more or less hairy, the wings not reticulate-veined, with spines up to 5 mm. Laeves up to 35 x 20 cm, oblong-ovate to lanceolate or ovate, sessile, sinuate-dentate or with 6-8 pairs of broadly triangular teeth with an apical spine 5-10 mm. greyish-green and sparcely lanate above. Capitula subglobose, solitary or in teminal clusters of 2-5; involucral bracts gradually tapering into a spine up to 5 mm, not keeled, puberulent outside. Corolla 15-25 mm, purplish to white. Achenes 4-5 mm, marbled greyish-black; pappus 7/9 mm, pale redish.
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Distribution: Europe northwards to N. France and C.Russia, but local in the extreem south; naturalized or casual in the north Al Au *Be Bu Co Cz Ga Ge Gr He *Ho Hs Hu t Ju Lu Rm Rs(C,W,K,E) [Br Da Rs(B) Su] Found: C. Jugoslavia: Rudinice : road from Foa toNiksi ("bus stop" and the only place for hours to make camp ... ) Date: 12-6-1976 Flora Europea:4-245 Literatuur:Notes: (Compositea);
Pictures: A.Voswinkel, The Netherlands email: aart@knoware.nl