Re: Ptilostemon chamaespence
anni jensen wrote:
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> Does anyone out there know of this plant? I just know that it is a kind of
> thistle and that the seed came from Greece.
> Anni J.
Mediterranean Wild Flowers (Blamey and Grey-Wilson)
Calls this Shrubby Ptilostemon and describes it as a "spinless evergreen
shrub (others in the genus have spines). Stems often white-downy. Leaves
white-downy beneath. Flower heads purple 14-24mm in lax spreading
few-flowered clusters or solitary....
Rocky habitats, cliffs Greece, Crete and eastern Med. Flowering
May-July".
The flower is pictured and looks quite showy with long florets but more
like a knapweed (Centaurea) than the average thistle as it is not at all
prickly.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
