Genus: Onopordum
Genus description:
Biennials. Stems spinose winged, aor absent Leaves spinose-dentate, pinnatifid to pinnatisect or almost pinnate, rarely subentire. Capitula globose to oviod. Involucral brcts in several rows, coriaceous, densely imbricate at least near the base, spine-tipped, glabrous to puberulent, sometimes glandular. Receptacle glabrous, with deep pits having dentaste margins. Florets reddish-purple, rarely pink or white; corolla-tube slender; limb actinomorphic or saccate. Anthers with subulate apical appendages. Achenes 4-6 mm, subtetragonal, 4- to 50-ribbed, glabrous, dull; pappus-hairs scabrid or plumose, united into a ring at base, deciduous.
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