Echinops ritro, the southern globethistle, 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 Asia.[2] The species is sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in Canada and the United States.[3][4]
Species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
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
Various butterflies and burnet moths on a flower of Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus, in the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden, Trenta, Bovec, Slovenia
Echinops ritro is a compact, bushy herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to 60cm (24in) tall, with broad prickly leaves and bearing globes of steel-blue flowers 2.5cm - 4.5cm 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.
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