Eryngium bithynicum
| Eryngium bithynicum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Eryngium |
| Species: | E. bithynicum
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| Binomial name | |
| Eryngium bithynicum Boiss. [1]
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Eryngium bithynicum, in Turkish çakırotu [2], is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to Turkey.
Description and Habitat
An Eryngo with somewhat widely-spreading diffuse display of bluish flowers on slender blue branches. The groundmost leaves spread out in a circle and are usually fairly simple or may be 2-3 lobed, and wither by flowering, the leaves above being of a different kind with more complex, broadish, toothier lobing.
It is easily confused with a number of similar Eryngo - each flowerhead is surrounded by 5(6) slender spine-leaves somewhat broadening from tip to base, and within the head each small flower is attended by a 3-part spine; inflorescence stems are strongly channeled and the flowers in a head are not numerous (usually fewer than 15). Photos.
It naturally likes steppe, fallow fields, eroded banks, 100-1400 m, flowering June to September. [3]
Distribution
It is native to Turkey only [1]; its distribution in Turkey is the western half, avoiding the southern edge [2].
References
- ^ a b Plants of the World Online (with map)
- ^ a b "bizimbitkiler.org (with map)".
- ^ PH Davis (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 4.