Echinops ritro

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Echinops ritro
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Echinops ritro subsp. ritro in Torà, Segarra-Catalunya, Spain
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Echinops
Species:
E. ritro
Binomial name
Echinops ritro
L. 1753 not Georgi 1775
Synonyms [1]
Synonymy
  • Echinops tauricusWilld. ex Ledeb.
  • Echinops tenuifoliusFisch. ex Schkuhr
  • Echinops meyeri(DC.) Iljin, syn of subsp. meyeri
  • Echinops ruthenicusM.Bieb., syn of subsp. ruthenicus
  • Echinops virgatusLam., syn of subsp. ruthenicus
  • Echinops sartorianusBoiss. & Heldr., syn of subsp. sartorianus
  • Echinops siculusStrobl, syn of subsp. siculus
  • Echinops thracicusVelen., syn of subsp. thracicus
Various butterflies and burnet moths on a flower of Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus, in the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden, Trenta, Bovec, Slovenia Butterflies, Alpine Botanical Garden Juliana.jpg
Various butterflies and burnet moths on a flower of Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus, in the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden, Trenta, Bovec, Slovenia

Echinops ritro, the southern globe thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southern and eastern Europe, from Spain east to Turkey, Ukraine, and Belarus, and western and central Asia east to Mongolia. [1] [2] The species is sparingly naturalised in scattered locations in Canada and the United States. [3] [4]

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Description

It 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 2.5–4.5 cm in diameter, in late summer. [5]

Taxonomy

Five subspecies are accepted by the Plants of the World Online database: [1]

Additionally, one variety is accepted, but without specification as to which subspecies it belongs to: [1]

Cultivation

Echinops ritro [6] and the subspecies E. ritro subsp. ruthenicus [7] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Plants previously reported as naturalised in Great Britain are mostly or all the related species Echinops bannaticus . [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Echinops ritro L." Plants of the World Online. 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  2. ↑ "Flora Italiana". Echinops ritro [Cardo pallottola meridionale] (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  3. ↑ Flora of North America, Echinops ritro Linnaeus
  4. ↑ Biota of North America Program, 2014 county distribution map
  5. ↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN   978-1405332965.
  6. ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Echinops ritro" . Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus" . Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Blue Globe-thistle Echinops bannaticus Rochel ex Schrad". PlantAtlas. Retrieved 2025-09-05.


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