Asteraceae
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Cirsium canum |
Cirsium MILLER |
| C. canum (L.) All., Fl. Pedem. 1:151 (1785). Syn: Carduus canus L., Mant. 108(1767); Cirsium louisii Thiéb. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 84:698(1937)! C.bieber- steinii Charadze in Zam. Sist. Geogr. Rast 23:112 (1963). Ic: Hegi, I11. Fl. Mittel-Eur. 6(2):884 f. 586 (1929); Jáv. & Csap., Ic. Fl. Hung. 541 f. 3877 (1929-34). Tall perennial, 70-200 cm with rhizome bearing fusiform-cylindrical roots. Stems shortly or narrowly winged, or unwinged, usually sparsely branched above. Basal leaves oblanceolate, 20-35(-40) x 3-7 cm incl. attenuate petiole, 2-serrate-pectinate into weak unequal spinules. Cauline leaves few to many, smaller, median oblong to linear-lanceolate, subsessile, pectinate-margined like basal leaves, subglabrous to arachnoid. Capitula solitary on (5-)15-30 cm leafless peduncles. Involucres hemispherical, 16-20 mm. Phyllaries 7-11-seriate, median oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, acute to shortly acuminate-mucronate, with dark vitta. Corollas 18-22 mm, purplish-pink. Achenes c. 4.5 mm. Pappus 15-18 mm. Fl. 7-8. Water meadows, marshy places, springs and ditches, 150-1620 m. Described from Austria. Scattered in Anatolia, rare in the south. A3 Bolu: Abant G., 1300 m, 73. 32888! 26 km W. of Gerede, 1100 m, Sorger 71-64-2! A4 Zonguldak: Keltepe above Yenice, 1300 m, D. 38980! A6 Tokat: Niksar, 350 m, D. 24845! A9 Kars: Kazikoparan, Trautvetter. B6 Sivas: 30 km W. of Gürün, 1620 m, Hub.-Mor. 15949! Erzincan: 3 km W.S.W. of Zara towards Sivas, Rech. 15225! C2 Denizli/ Aydin, 9 vii 1905, St. Lager! C3/4 Konya: Beyşehir to Konya, viii 1845, Heldr. (as C. pannonicum)! C6 Hatay: Amouk, N. of lake of Antioch (Amik G.), Thiebaut & Louis (type of C. louisii)! C. Europe to N. Balkans and eastwards to W. Siberia, Caucasia and W. Iran. Euro-Sib. element. Allied to the European C. pannonicum (L. fil.) Link which has been wrongly recorded from Turkey. |