Echinops ritro

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Echinops ritro
File:Echinops July 2011-1.jpg
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E. ritro
Binomial name
Echinops ritro
L. 1753 not Georgi 1775
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy
  • Echinops tauricus Willd. ex Ledeb.
  • Echinops tenuifolius Fisch. ex Schkuhr
  • Echinops meyeri (DC.) Iljin, syn of subsp. meyeri
  • Echinops ruthenicus M.Bieb., syn of subsp. ruthenicus
  • Echinops virgatus Lam., syn of subsp. ruthenicus
  • Echinops sartorianus Boiss. & Heldr., syn of subsp. sartorianus
  • Echinops siculus Strobl, syn of subsp. siculus
  • Echinops thracicus Velen., syn of subsp. thracicus

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File:Butterflies, Alpine Botanical Garden Juliana.jpg
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. 1.0 1.1 The Plant List, Echinops ritro L.
  2. Altervista Flora Italiana, Cardo pallottola meridionale, Echinops ritro L.
  3. Flora of North America, Echinops ritro Linnaeus
  4. Biota of North America Program, 2014 county distribution map
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