''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are

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to Europe, east to central Asia, and south to the mountains of tropical Africa. Globe thistle is the host plant of weevil ''

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Species

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Echinops adenocaulos ''Echinops adenocaulos'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () o ...

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Echinops bannaticus ''Echinops bannaticus'', known as the blue globe-thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southeastern Europe. It is an herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to , with prickly foliage and spherical blue flower ...

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Echinops chantavicus ''Echinops chantavicus'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Echinops ''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce ...

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Echinops echinatus ''Echinops echinatus'', the Indian globe thistle, commonly known as ''Usnakantaka'', is a species of globe thistle, found in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Indian globe thistle is an erect branched herb about 100 cm high. It has short, stout ste ...

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Echinops giganteus ''Echinops giganteus'' is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae and is native to Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania. References

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'' *'' Echinops gmelinii'' *'' Echinops graecus'' *''

Echinops humilis ''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe, east to central As ...

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Echinops latifolius ''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe, east to central As ...

'' *'' Echinops longisetus'' *'' Echinops nivens'' *''

Echinops niveus ''Echinops niveus'' is a species in the genus ''Echinops'' or globe thistles. It is native to the Indian subcontinent: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal. Nivetin is a neoflavonoid Neoflavonoids are a class of polyphenol ...

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Echinops orientalis ''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe, east to central As ...

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Echinops ritro ''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. The species is sparingly naturali ...

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Echinops sahyadricus ''Echinops sahyadricus'', the Sahyadri globe thistle, is a species of flowering plant. It is a medium sized forb belong to the tribe Cardueae in the family Asteraceae. ''E. sahyadricus'' was discovered by a Mumbai University student at the Rajgad ...

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Echinops setifer ''Echinops setifer'' is a perennial globe thistle species of flowering plant in the genus ''Echinops'', native to central and southern Japan, Korea and eastern China. References setifer The greater hedgehog tenrec (''Setifer setosus''), ...

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Echinops sphaerocephalus ''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 ''Ech ...

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Echinops spinosissimus ''Echinops spinosissimus'' is a European species of plant in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to southeastern Europe (Sicily, Apulia, Greece, Albania, and the western Balkans), northern Africa, and southwest Asia as f ...

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Echinops tournefortii ''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe, east to central As ...

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Echinops tschimganicus ''Echinops'' is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are native to Europe, east to central As ...

Gallery

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References

Asteraceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Cynareae-stub