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  11. ›Echinops spinosissimus
Spiny Globe-thistle
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Spiny Globe-thistle

Echinops spinosissimus

Echinops spinosissimus is a European species of plants in the thistle tribe within the sunflower family. It is native to southeastern Europe (Sicily, Apulia, Greece, Albania, and the western Balkans), northern Africa, and southwest Asia as far east as Iran.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 465181.