Onopordum laconicum, Heldr. & Sart. ex Rouy

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 : 246

3. O. laconicum Heldr. & Sart. ex Rouy , Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 43: 585 (1896).

Plant up to 70 cm. Stem whitish, sparsely whitishflocculose-tomentose; wings up to 7 mm wide, not reticulateveined, with spines up to 5 mm. Leaves up to 20 x 5 cm, oblonglanceolate, sessile, deeply pinnatifid, with 8-10 pairs of lobes, greyish-green, laxly arachnoid-hairy, with numerous minute glands; lobes triangular, longer than wide, palmate or 3-lobulate, the lobules with apical spine up to 4 mm. Capitula 40-50 x 40-70 mm, ovoid-globose; involucral bracts 4-7 mm wide in basal i, usually narrowing to the apical |, somewhat triquetrous with an acute keel. Corolla 30-35 mm. Achenes 4-5 mm, brownish; pappus 8-10 mm. • S. Greece. Gr.