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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Hinterland1 on May 08, 2018, 09:34:45 AM

Title: Unknown flower
Post by: Hinterland1 on May 08, 2018, 09:34:45 AM

If anyone could tell me what this flower is? I'm almost ashamed to ask for I'm sure it's quite ordinary! You can see the butterfly (Iphiclides podalirius) sucking at it. This was taken in south Dalmatia on a high plateau above the sea.

Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Caroline on May 08, 2018, 10:23:19 PM

It looks like a member of the Cynara family to me.  Maybe Cynara cardunculus the cardoon?

Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Hinterland1 on May 09, 2018, 08:09:44 AM

I thought so too except the stems are smooth and not prickly, and the low lying leaves are too narrow. Perhaps some kind of Cirsium except, again, it's not prickly?
I think the closest I can get to is...Cirsium tuberosum. Can anyone attest to it?

Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Umbrian on May 10, 2018, 07:44:03 AM

How about Galactites tormentosa?

Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Hinterland1 on May 17, 2018, 11:57:20 AM

I wouldn't think so, the flower heads are nothing like it, also they don't branch out but grow up in single stalks.