Eryngium thorifolium
Eryngium thorifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, endemic to Turkey.
Description and habitat
Eryngium thorifolium is an Eryngo with single tall stem, based with round, shield-like, saw-toothed greyish leaves and smaller ones up the stem, flowering with a few branches of yellowy-green flower heads. Under the heads are 6-8 spiny bract-leaves, within the heads the individual flower bracteoles are three-part.It naturally grows on rocky serpentine soil, and apart from Eryngium pseudothorifolium, lacks close allies.
It may be confused with Eryngium pseudothorifolium, whose leaves are more wedge-topped and less indented at the base, with only 1-3 flower heads, and which grows on marly soil, and also with species of Pimpinella, such as Pimpinella flabellifolia.