Summary description from Wikipedia:

Berkheya armata in languages:

Afrikaans

grootdissel

Afrikaans

vlaktedissel

Afrikaans

vlaktedoring

English

Giant Capethistle

English

Giant African Thistle

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Parent Taxon

• Berkheya

Sibling Taxa

• Berkheya acanthopoda
• Berkheya angolensis
• Berkheya angusta
• Berkheya angustifolia
• Berkheya annectens
• Berkheya armata
• Berkheya barbata
• Berkheya bergiana
• Berkheya bipinnatifida
• Berkheya buphthalmoides
• Berkheya caffra
• Berkheya canescens
• Berkheya cardopatifolia
• Berkheya carduoides
• Berkheya carlinifolia
• Berkheya carlinoides
• Berkheya carlinopsis
• Berkheya chamaepeuce
• Berkheya chiesiana
• Berkheya chrysanthemoides
• Berkheya cirsiifolia
• Berkheya coddii
• Berkheya coriacea
• Berkheya cruciata
• Berkheya cuneata
• Berkheya debilis
• Berkheya decurrens
• Berkheya densifolia
• Berkheya discolor
• Berkheya draco
• Berkheya dregei
• Berkheya dumicola
• Berkheya echinacea
• Berkheya eriobasis
• Berkheya erysithales
• Berkheya ferox
• Berkheya francisci
• Berkheya fruticosa
• Berkheya glabrata
• Berkheya griquana
• Berkheya herbacea
• Berkheya heterophylla
• Berkheya insignis
• Berkheya jardineana
• Berkheya johnstoniana
• Berkheya latifolia
• Berkheya leucaugeta
• Berkheya mackenii
• Berkheya macrocephala
• Berkheya maritima
• Berkheya milleriana
• Berkheya montana
• Berkheya multijuga
• Berkheya nivea
• Berkheya onobromoides
• Berkheya onopordifolia
• Berkheya pannosa
• Berkheya pauciflora
• Berkheya pinnatifida
• Berkheya purpurea
• Berkheya radula
• Berkheya radyeri
• Berkheya rhapontica
• Berkheya rigida
• Berkheya robusta
• Berkheya rosulata
• Berkheya schinzii
• Berkheya seminivea
• Berkheya setifera
• Berkheya speciosa
• Berkheya spekeana
• Berkheya sphaerocephala
• Berkheya spinosa
• Berkheya spinosissima
• Berkheya subulata
• Berkheya tysonii
• Berkheya umbellata
• Berkheya viscosa
• Berkheya welwitschii
• Berkheya zeyheri

Top Observation Places

• Cape Town
• Paarl
• Stellenbosch
• Kraaifontein