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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Echinops
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 814. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 356. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Globe thistle
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Echinops
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Echinops]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek echinos, hedgehog, spiny, and ops, face, appearance, alluding to spiny heads
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 12, 28, 64, 82, 83
|treatment_page=page 85
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole-organism some measurement;whole-organism duration;herbage pubescence;herbage architecture or shape"><b>Perennials,</b> 100–200 cm, herbage usually ± tomentose, spiny.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>usually erect, simple or branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>basal and cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf position;leaf position;leaf architecture;leaf architecture">sessile or petiolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade margin shape;blade margin shape;lobe architecture or shape;tooth architecture or shape;face pubescence;face architecture or function or pubescence">blade margins dentate to pinnately 1–3-pinnately lobed or divided, lobes and teeth spiny, faces ± tomentose, sometimes glandular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="head architecture or shape;head quantity;head architecture;floret quantity;secondary head architecture;secondary head shape"><b>Heads </b>discoid, many, each with 1 floret, sessile, in pedunculate, spheric secondary heads.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bract orientation;bract shape"><b>Secondary </b>involucres of reflexed, laciniate-pinnatifid bracts.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="primary involucre shape"><b>Primary </b>involucres ellipsoid, subtended by bristles.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="phyllary quantity;phyllary size;phyllary shape;phyllary architecture or shape;series quantity;apex size;apex shape;apex architecture or shape"><b>Phyllaries </b>many in several series, unequal, lanceolate (outer) to linear (inner), entire, apices sometimes expanded and fringed, not spine-tipped.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="receptacle shape;scale shape;scale shape"><b>Receptacles </b>turbinate, bearing elongate subulate scales.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="floret quantity"><b>Florets </b>1 per primary head;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;tube shape;throat height or length or size;lobe arrangement or course or shape">corollas white to greenish, blue-gray, blue, or purple, tubes elongate, throats very short, lobes linear;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther base shape;apical appendage shape;apical appendage shape">anther bases sharply tailed, apical appendages narrowly triangular, acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="portion fusion;ring pubescence;portion fusion;portion arrangement;portion shape">style-branches: fused portions with minutely hairy rings, distinct portions divergent, linear-oblong.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="cypsela shape;cypsela shape;apex architecture or shape;apex pubescence;hair length or size;hair fragility;hair orientation;hair orientation;hair architecture;attachment scar position"><b>Cypselae </b>± cylindric, 4-angled, apices ± truncate, without crowns, densely villous with long, stiff, appressed or ascending, multicellular hairs, attachment scars basal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="scale quantity;scale height or length or size;scale fusion">pappi of many, short, ± connate [or distinct] scales.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="x chromosome quantity;x chromosome quantity;x chromosome quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 13, 14, 15, 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=Eurasia;Africa
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 120 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lobes of leaf blades linear or narrowly oblong
|[[Echinops ritro|Echinops ritro]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lobes of leaf blades lanceolate to triangular
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Adaxial leaf faces glandular
|[[Echinops sphaerocephalus|Echinops sphaerocephalus]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Adaxial leaf faces glabrous or sparsely strigose
|[[Echinops exaltatus|Echinops exaltatus]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Echinops
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Eurasia;Africa
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V19-20-21/V19_29.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Echinops
|anther base shape=tailed
|apex architecture or shape=truncate;not spine-tipped
|apex pubescence=villous
|apex shape=fringed
|apex size=expanded
|apical appendage shape=acute;triangular
|attachment scar position=basal
|blade margin shape=divided;dentate;pinnately 1-3-pinnately lobed
|bract orientation=reflexed
|bract shape=laciniate-pinnatifid
|corolla coloration=white;greenish blue-gray blue or purple
|cypsela shape=4-angled;cylindric
|face architecture or function or pubescence=glandular
|face pubescence=tomentose
|floret quantity=1;1
|hair architecture=multicellular
|hair fragility=stiff
|hair length or size=long
|hair orientation=ascending;appressed
|head architecture=sessile
|head architecture or shape=discoid
|head quantity=many
|herbage architecture or shape=spiny
|herbage pubescence=tomentose
|leaf architecture=petiolate;sessile
|leaf position=cauline;basal
|lobe architecture or shape=spiny
|lobe arrangement or course or shape=linear
|phyllary architecture or shape=entire
|phyllary quantity=many
|phyllary shape=lanceolate;linear
|phyllary size=unequal
|portion arrangement=divergent
|portion fusion=distinct;fused
|portion shape=linear-oblong
|primary involucre shape=ellipsoid
|receptacle shape=turbinate
|ring pubescence=hairy
|scale fusion=connate
|scale height or length or size=short
|scale quantity=many
|scale shape=subulate;elongate
|secondary head architecture=pedunculate
|secondary head shape=spheric
|series quantity=several
|stem architecture=branched;simple
|stem orientation=erect
|throat height or length or size=short
|tooth architecture or shape=spiny
|tube shape=elongate
|whole-organism duration=perennial
|whole-organism some measurement=100cm;200cm
|x chromosome quantity=16;15;14;13
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