Eryngium pseudothorifolium
Eryngium pseudothorifolium, in Turkish yalancı boğadikeni, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae endemic to SW Turkey.
Description and Habitat
An Eryngo with single upright stem based with roundish, shield-like, saw-toothed greyish leaves and some smaller ones up the stem, flowering with 1-3 yellowy-green flower heads. .It naturally grows on marly soil, and apart from Eryngium thorifolium lacks close allies.
It may be confused with Eryngium thorifolium, whose leaves are rounder-topped and much more indented at the base, with many more flower heads on some branches, and which grows on rocky serpentine soil; and also with species of Pimpinella such as
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