Cirsium scabrum, (Poiret) Bonnet & Barratte

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 237

26. C. scabrum (Poiret) Bonnet & Barratte , Cat.Rais. Pl. Vase. Tunisie 238 (1896).

Perennial (60-)100-200(-400) cm. Leaves very large, decurrent for c. 1 cm, flat, sparsely arachnoid-lanate to -tomentose beneath, pinnatifid for up to |-way to midrib; segments broadly triangular, with 2-3 shortlytriangular lobes or teeth and strong apical spines 3-10 mm. Capitula 1-3 at apex of long branches, in a lax panicle, with 3-6 subtending leaves shorter than to equalling capitulum. Involucre 23-30(-35) x 18-26 mm, sparsely arachnoid-hairy to -lanate; bracts appressed, gradually narrowed into the erecto-patent apical spine 0-5-1 (-2) mm. Corolla 22-28 mm, usually pink. Achenes 4-5-5 mm; pappus 17-22 mm. W. Mediterranean region. Hs It Sa Si.