Echinops: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Echinops
Species
Scientific Name: Echinops

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Echinops

Echinops is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are distributed from central Asia, Mongolia and north-eastern China to the Mediterranean basin, temperate regions of Eurasia, reaching to Indian subcontinent and tropical Africa. Globe thistles are a common host plant for weevils of the genus Larinus.

Echinops in languages:

Chinese: 藍刺頭屬
Czech: bělotrn
Danish: Tidselkugle
English: Globe thistles
English: Globe Thistle
French: Echinops
French: Oursin
German: Kugeldisteln
Hebrew: קיפודן
Italian: cardo pallottola
Japanese: ヒゴタイ属
Korean: 절굿대속
Lithuanian: Bandrenis
Modern Greek: Εχίνωψ
Polish: Przegorzan
Russian: Мордовник
Slovene: bodoglavec
Swedish: bolltistlar
Ukrainian: Головатень

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Parent Taxon

Asteraceae

Sibling Taxa

Echinops

Child Taxa