Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum
Kum boğadikeni
Glaucous, rigid perennial. Sterns 20-35 cm, stout, striate and angled, widely branched. Basal leaves persistent, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular with large triangular spine-tipped teeth. Median and upper cauline leaves similar but subsessile and smaller. Inflorescence glaucous, divaricately-paniculate, capitula 3-15, ovoid, 10-25 mm diam. Bracts 5, foliose, ovate, with a few large broad spine-tipped teeth, 1-2 x capitulum. Bracteoles all tricuspidate. Fl. 6-8. Coastal.