Eryngium babadaghense
Eryngium babadaghense, or baba boğadiken in Turkish, is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, endemic to southwest Turkey.
Description and Habitat
An Eryngo with moderately sized stems and complex fine-lobed leaves, becoming bluish at maturity. Each flowerhead is surrounded by 6-10 slender spine-leaves, and within the head each small flower is attended by a largish spine.It grows in Fethiye, southwest Turkey, at 1400-1700 m on serpentine ground, and takes its name from its Babadağ site.
In Turkey it most resembles Eryngium kotschyi, differing by its base leaves being finer, its stem leaves being finer with much longer terminal lobe, larger whorled leaves under the heads, among other differences; and also Eryngium glomeratum, both being present in the southwest of Turkey. .