Eryngium bithynicum
| Eryngium bithynicum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Eryngium |
| Species: | E. bithynicum |
| Binomial name | |
| Eryngium bithynicum Boiss. [1] | |
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, 100–1,400 m (330–4,590 ft), 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
- 1 2 Plants of the World Online (with map)
- 1 2 "bizimbitkiler.org (with map)".
- ↑ PH Davis (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 4.