EcoFlora - Echinops

Echinops
Family: Asteraceae Paul Rothrock	FNA Gleason & Cronquist Resources David J. Keil in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21) Perennials, 100-200 cm, herbage usually ± tomentose, spiny. Stems usually erect, simple or branched. Leaves basal and cauline; sessile or petiolate; blade margins dentate to pinnately 1-3-pinnately lobed or divided, lobes and teeth spiny, faces ± tomentose, sometimes glandular. Heads discoid, many, each with 1 floret, sessile, in pedunculate, spheric secondary heads. Secondary involucres of reflexed, laciniate-pinnatifid bracts. Primary involucres ellipsoid, subtended by bristles. Phyllaries many in several series, unequal, lanceolate (outer) to linear (inner), entire, apices sometimes expanded and fringed, not spine-tipped. Receptacles turbinate, bearing elongate subulate scales . Florets 1 per primary head; corollas white to greenish, blue-gray, blue, or purple, tubes elongate, throats very short, lobes linear; anther bases sharply tailed, apical appendages narrowly triangular, acute; style branches: fused portions with minutely hairy rings, distinct portions divergent, linear-oblong. Cypselae ± cylindric, 4-angled, apices ± truncate, without crowns, densely villous with long, stiff, appressed or ascending, multicellular hairs, attachment scars basal; pappi of many, short. ± connate [or distinct] scales. x = 13, 14, 15, 16. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Heads 1-fld, numerous, closely aggregated into globose secondary heads that often have a common invol of a few narrow, reflexed bracts; proper invol subtended by a tuft of capillary bristles, narrow, its bracts well imbricate, firm, often awn- tipped; fls tubular and perfect, the cor blue to purple or white, with slender tube and long, narrow lobes; anthers with a firm, narrow terminal appendage, shortly tailed at the base, the tails fringed-hairy; style with a ring of hairs and an abrupt change of texture below the rather short, papillate branches; achenes fusiform, hairy; pappus of numerous short setae or narrow scales, these distinct or ±united, forming a crown; spiny perennial thistles, generally ±white- tomentose, with alternate, toothed or pinnatifid lvs. 100, Old World. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Echinops aberdaricus Map not Available Echinops amplexicaulis Map not Available Echinops angustilobus Media not available Map not Available Echinops bannaticus Map not Available Echinops bovei Media not available Map not Available Echinops buhaitensis Media not available Map not Available Echinops cephalotes Map not Available Echinops commutatus Media not available Map not Available Echinops cyrenaicus Media not available Map not Available Echinops dissectus Media not available Map not Available Echinops echinatus Map not Available Echinops ellenbeckii Media not available Map not Available Echinops eryngiifolius Media not available Map not Available Echinops exaltatus Map not Available Echinops fontqueri Media not available Map not Available Echinops fruticosus Media not available Map not Available Echinops galalensis Media not available Map not Available Echinops giganteus Map not Available Echinops glaberrimus Media not available Map not Available Echinops gmelinii Media not available Map not Available Echinops gracilis Media not available Map not Available Echinops guineensis Media not available Map not Available Echinops himantophyllus Media not available Map not Available Echinops hispidus Media not available Map not Available Echinops hoehnelii Media not available Map not Available Echinops humilis Map not Available Echinops hussonii Media not available Map not Available Echinops integrifolius Map not Available Echinops karatavicus Media not available Map not Available Echinops kebericho Media not available Map not Available Echinops lanatus Media not available Map not Available Echinops latifolius Map not Available Echinops longifolius Media not available Map not Available Echinops longisetus Media not available Map not Available Echinops macrochaetus Map not Available Echinops maracandicus Media not available Map not Available Echinops mildbraedii Media not available Map not Available Echinops nanus Media not available Map not Available Echinops orientalis Map not Available Echinops pappii Media not available Map not Available Echinops pungens Map not Available Echinops reticulatus Media not available Map not Available Echinops ritro Map not Available Echinops ritrodes Media not available Map not Available Echinops ruthenicus Map not Available Echinops setifer Map not Available Echinops sphaerocephalus Map not Available Echinops spinosissimus Media not available Map not Available Echinops spinosus Map not Available Echinops strigosus Map not Available