Echinops ritro
| Echinops ritro | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | eoin |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cynareae |
| Genus: | Echinops |
| Species: | E. ritro |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinops ritro L. 1753 not Georgi 1775 | |
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Synonymy
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Various butterflies and day-flying moths (Zygaena filipendulae) on a flower of Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus, in the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden, Trenta, Bovec, Slovenia
Echinops ritro (southern globethistle) is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to southern and eastern Europe (from Spain east to Turkey, Ukraine, and Belarus), and western Asia.[2] The species is sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in the United States.[3][4]
Echinops ritro is a compact, bushy herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to 60 cm (24 in) tall, with broad prickly leaves and bearing globes of steel-blue flowers 2.5 cm - 4.5 cm in diameter, in late summer.[5]
Echinops ritro [6] and the subspecies E. ritro subsp. ruthenicus[7] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
- Subspecies[1]
- Echinops ritro subsp. meyeri (DC.) Kožuharov
- Echinops ritro subsp. ritro
- Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus (M.Bieb.) Nyman
- Echinops ritro subsp. sartorianus (Boiss. & Heldr.) Kožuharov
- Echinops ritro subsp. siculus (Strobl) Greuter
- Echinops ritro subsp. thracicus (Velen.) Kožuharov
References
- 1 2 The Plant List, Echinops ritro L.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Cardo pallottola meridionale, Echinops ritro L.
- ↑ Flora of North America, Echinops ritro Linnaeus
- ↑ Biota of North America Program, 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Echinops ritro". Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus". Retrieved 17 July 2013.
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