Echinops graecus, Miller

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 : 213

5. E. graecus Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 4 (1768).

Stem 25-70 cm, branched, glabrous or arachnoid-tomentose. Leaves elliptical in outline, 2-pinnatisect, glabrous or with arachnoid indumentum above, white-tomentose beneath; segments linearlanceolate, with short, slender spines. Inflorescence 3-4 cm in diameter, shiny silver-white. Involucre 15-20 mm; setae shorter than the outer bracts; bracts 12-15, rigid, setulose or subglabrous; outer bracts broadly spathulate, acuminate, longciliate; middle bracts lanceolate, ciliate. Corolla blue. Pappussetae connate at base. • E. Greece, Kikladhes. Gr.