Echinops

This article is about the plant. For the mammal genus, see Lesser hedgehog tenrec.

Echinops

Echinops adenocaulos with a shield bug
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Cynareae
Genus:	Echinops L.
Species
About 120 species, see text

Echinops /ˈɛkᵻnɒps/^[1] 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.^[2]

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 ritro
Echinops ruthenicus
Echinops setifer
Echinops sphaerocephalus
Echinops spinosissimus
Echinops tournefortii
Echinops tschimganicus
Echinops viscosus

Echinops adenocaulos in Haifa, Israel
Echinops setifer in Japan

References

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↑ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.

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