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|accepted_name=Scolymus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 813. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 355. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Scolymus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scolymus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek skolymus, a kind of thistle or artichoke; allusion unclear, perhaps for perceived similarity to Cynara, globe artichoke
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 214, 217, 218
|treatment_page=page 220
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> biennials, or perennials, 10–80(–200+) cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect, branched distally, glabrous or hairy (internodes winged, margins spiny, faces ± scabrellous and/or sparsely arachnose). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline (mostly cauline at flowering); basal ± petiolate, distal sessile; blades oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, margins pinnately lobed to dentate, usually strongly spiny (faces ± scabrellous and/or sparsely arachnose). <b>Heads</b> borne singly (axillary and terminal) or in ± spiciform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> usually 0 (heads in axils of ± foliaceous bracts; if peduncles produced, not inflated, strongly bracteate). <b>Calyculi</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to urceolate, 8–12[–16] mm diam. (larger in fruit). <b>Phyllaries</b> 24–30+ in 3+ series, lanceolate to lance-linear (± flat proximally), unequal to subequal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices spine-tipped. <b>Receptacles</b> conic to hemispheric, smooth, glabrous, paleate; paleae winged (each palea enfolding, adnate to, and shed with cypsela). <b>Florets</b> 30–60+; corollas yellow. <b>Cypselae</b> (each shed with its enfolding palea) brownish, obcompressed, ± obovoid, not beaked, ribs 0, glabrous; pappi 0 or persistent (fragile), of 2–4[–5] whitish to stramineous, subequal, setiform-aristate scales plus 0–4 muticous to lanceolate scales in ± 1 series. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Middle East;n Africa;Atlantic Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Annuals; margins of stem wings and leaf blades usually white and thickened; pappi 0.
|[[Scolymus maculatus|Scolymus maculatus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Biennials or perennials; margins of stem wings and leaf blades little, if at all, white or thickened; pappi of 2–4 setiform-aristate scales plus 0–4 muticous to lanceolate scales.
|[[Scolymus hispanicus|Scolymus hispanicus]]
|}
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name=Scolymus
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|distribution=Europe;Middle East;n Africa;Atlantic Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_269.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Scolymus
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