Echinops - globe thistle

Echinops is a genus of about 120 species of thistles in the daisy family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They are native to Europe east to central Asia and south to the mountains of tropical Africa.


Some species
Echinops exaltatus is a species of globe thistle. It has escaped clutivation in eastern Canada and in Washington state, USA.

Echinops exaltatus is a species of globe thistle. It is native to Europe and western Asia.

Echinops sphaerocephalus is a species of globe thistle which is known by the common name great globe thistle. This species is native to Eurasia but it lives on other continents where it was introduced, including North America where it is a widespread weed. This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two meters. Its erect, branching gray stems bear the occasional sharply toothed, sharp-lobed pointed green leaf. Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 centimeters in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets. The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene about 7 to 8 millimeters long.

Echinops adenocaulos

Echinops bannaticus

Echinops giganteus

Echinops humilis

Echinops spinosissimus

Echinops tournefortii

Echinops ruthenicus

Echinops tschimganicus

Echinops latifolius

Echinops nivens

Echinops orientalis

Echinops chantavicus

Echinops gmelinii

Echinops graecus

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