Carduus bourgeanus, Boiss. & Reuter

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 : 229

35. C. bourgeanus Boiss. & Reuter , Pugillus 62 (1852).

Annual up to 40 cm. Stem arachnoid-hairy; wings up to 4 mm wide, triangular-dentate with an apical spine up to 5 mm. Leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, sparsely hairy above, greyish-arachnoid-hairy beneath, with straight unicellular hairs and a few multicellular hairs, with 6-8 pairs of broadly triangular, usually lobulate lobes, each with an apical spine up to 5 mm. Capitula 15-20 x 10-20 mm, campanulate, subsessile, or with peduncle up to 1 cm and 2 mm in diameter; involucral bracts closely imbricate, the outer and middle 0-5-1-25 mm wide, linear-subulate, with narrowly scarious margin, the mid-vein raised in the distal I; inner bracts 3-veined. Corolla 12-15 mm. Achenes 3-4 mm, swollen, nearly smooth; apical prominence sessile, cylindrical, entire; pappus 11-13 mm. Roadsides and waste places. • C., S. & S.E. Spain, S.E. Portugal. Hs Lu.