Scolymus grandiflorus, Desf.

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 : 304

3. S. grandiflorus Desf. , FI. Atl. 2: 240 (1799).

Perennial 18-40 cm, more or less hairy; stem with continuous spinose-dentate wings. Leaves 60-120 x 35-40 mm; ovate-lanceolate to linearoblong, pinnatisect, spiny, not or scarcely thickened at margin; the uppermost sparsely long-spinose-dentate. Panicle subcorymbose. Involucre 15-22 x 14—16 mm; bracts ovate-lanceolate to linear-oblong, the outer abruptly contracted into a spiny apex, with numerous hairs. Receptacular scales not narrowed at apex. Achenes c. 5 mm, obovate; pappus of a few rigid hairs. W. Mediterranean region. Co Ga It Sa Si *Tu.