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Spotted at Toronto Botanical Gardens; Toronto, Canada
It is a compact, bushy herbaceous perennial thistle, growing to 24" tall, with ...
While growing they develop a round-shape shrub. Globe thistle isn't an ...
Echinops is a species of flowering plant in ...
Each spike on the ball is a flower bud that opens up with a tiny five pointed ...
Bloomed woolly Grecian Globe-thistles, a Greek native wildflower species, ...
Echinops is a genus of about 120 species of ...
Flower clusters solitary or several in a branched cluster, greyish or whitish. ...
2-4 feet tall with purple spiky flowers
Kugeldistel (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugeldisteln) und Dunkle Erdhummel ...
See the EOL link for a picture of a face. This shows a pretty good view of a ...
Black and yellow bee feeding on echinops ...
Got this shot from Mt Pulag, the 2nd highest peak in the Philippines (2,900 ...
about 60 cm high herb, white flowers in a sphere , spikes
A thistle with white globose flowering head.
A perennial desert thistle. Plant naked or slightly hairy. Leaves rather broad, ...
Big thistel, ca 1,7 meter high. Stem is hairy and hollow, leafs are zig-zagged ...
Common Name: Globe thistle The spiky leaves and bristly metallic blue flowers ...