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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Echinops
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 814. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 356. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Globe thistle
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Echinops
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Echinops]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek echinos, hedgehog, spiny, and ops, face, appearance, alluding to spiny heads
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 12, 28, 64, 82, 83
|treatment_page=page 85
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 100–200 cm, herbage usually ± tomentose, spiny. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, simple or branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; sessile or petiolate; blade margins dentate to pinnately 1–3-pinnately lobed or divided, lobes and teeth spiny, faces ± tomentose, sometimes glandular. <b>Heads</b> discoid, many, each with 1 floret, sessile, in pedunculate, spheric secondary heads. <b>Secondary</b> involucres of reflexed, laciniate-pinnatifid bracts. <b>Primary</b> involucres ellipsoid, subtended by bristles. <b>Phyllaries</b> many in several series, unequal, lanceolate (outer) to linear (inner), entire, apices sometimes expanded and fringed, not spine-tipped. <b>Receptacles</b> turbinate, bearing elongate subulate scales. <b>Florets</b> 1 per primary head; corollas white to greenish, blue-gray, blue, or purple, tubes elongate, throats very short, lobes linear; anther bases sharply tailed, apical appendages narrowly triangular, acute; style branches: fused portions with minutely hairy rings, distinct portions divergent, linear-oblong. <b>Cypselae</b> ± cylindric, 4-angled, apices ± truncate, without crowns, densely villous with long, stiff, appressed or ascending, multicellular hairs, attachment scars basal; pappi of many, short, ± connate [or distinct] scales. <b>x</b> = 13, 14, 15, 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=Eurasia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 120 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lobes of leaf blades linear or narrowly oblong
|[[Echinops ritro|Echinops ritro]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lobes of leaf blades lanceolate to triangular
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Adaxial leaf faces glandular
|[[Echinops sphaerocephalus|Echinops sphaerocephalus]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Adaxial leaf faces glabrous or sparsely strigose
|[[Echinops exaltatus|Echinops exaltatus]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Echinops
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=Eurasia;Africa.
|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_29.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Echinops
}}<!--

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