Eryngium bourgatii
Mediterranean Sea Holly, Mediterranean Eryngo
5-8
Mediterranean Region

 
18-24 inches tall and 18-24 inches wide
Blue flower heads are ¾ inches long and are surrounded by 9-15 involucral bracts which are unequal in length. Bracts can be entire with a pointed tip or have sparse spines on the margin. The bracts create a very unusual and attractive collar around the teasel-like flower head.
Summer
The alternate leaves are of two types. The basal leaves are nearly orbicular, 2 inches palmately parted in 3-5 lobes nearly to the leaf base. Leaf segments are 3 and spinose toothed. Stem leaves are sessile and deeply dissected. All leaves are veined
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
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