Echinophora spinosa, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 324

1. E. spinosa L. , Sp. Pl. 239 (1753) .

More or less pubescent perennial up to 50 cm. Leaves 2-pinnate, rigid; lobes thick, keeled beneath, sulcate above, spine-tipped. Rays 4-8, pubescent. Bracts and bracteoles 5-10, oblong-lanceolate to linear, spinose. Each partial umbel with a central hermaphrodite flower and a number of male flowers whose more or less connate pedicels form an involucre round the fruit. Petals white, or very rarely pink, pubescent on the back, the outer larger than the inner. Maritime sands. Mediterranean region. Al BI Co Ga G r Hs It Ju Sa Si.