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Echinops sphaerocephalus
Sign in to saveAlso known as glandular globe-thistle, great globe-thistle, pale globe-thistle
species of plant
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
Observations recorded27,849
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 909
- With media
- 705
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, DAV, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, CMN, CM, QUE
- Recorded in
- Canada, Switzerland, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
Echinops sphaerocephalus, known by the common names glandular globe-thistle, great globe-thistle or pale globe-thistle, is a Eurasian species of globe-thistle belonging to the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Echinops sphaerocephalus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.