Eryngium creticum
Eryngium creticum
Göz dikeni
Slender annual or biennial. Stem 20-60 cm, branched at or below the middle. Outer basal leaves withered at flowering time, 2-3 x 2-2,5 cm, trisect into acutely lobed, spiny-toothed segments. Cauline leaves sessile, deeply palmatifid into slender, spiny-pinnatifid lobes. Inflorescence glaucous to amethyst, diffusely paniculate; capitula up to 40, subglobose, 5-10 mm diam., more than 15-flowered. Bracts 5, linear-subulate, pungent, spreading, 2-4 x capitulum, sparsely spinulose near base. Bracteoles all tri-cuspidate. Fl. 7-8. Bushy plains, phrygana, fallow fields.
Balkans, W. Syria, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, Cyprus, N. Egypt. E. Medit. element.
