Cirsium echinatum (Desf.) DC.

Spice Detail In the field Inflorescence

Family: COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE)

Genus: Cirsium

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): West Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Fields and road sides.

Characteristics: A composite plant with spiny leaves and purple flowers. Characteristic are the leaves that take a whitish colour at the margin and the reverse due to their dense pilosity the face has rigid spiny looking setae. The capitula are large and round and sre also covered by a dense pilosity. Can be differentiated from Cirsium vulgare subsp. crinitum as this latter the leaves descend from the stem giving it a spiny -winged stem in appearance.