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Carlina (said to have cured the army of Charlemagne [Carolinus] of the plague). Compositae. Low rather coarse annuals, biennials or perennials, with thistle-like foliage, large white or purplish heads, a feathery pappus, and chaffy receptacle: outer involucral bracts coriaceous, usually spiny, the inner ones colored or shiny and petal-like: fr. a silky-hairy achene. —Some 15 or 20 species in the Medit. region.
 
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An open sunny place and ordinary garden soil are all they require. They are capital for the sunny part of a rockery. Propagated by cuttings or seeds.
 
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Read about Carlina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Carlina (said to have cured the army of Charlemagne [Carolinus] of the plague). Compositae. Low rather coarse annuals, biennials or perennials, with thistle-like foliage, large white or purplish heads, a feathery pappus, and chaffy receptacle: outer involucral bracts coriaceous, usually spiny, the inner ones colored or shiny and petal-like: fr. a silky-hairy achene. —Some 15 or 20 species in the Medit. region.

An open sunny place and ordinary garden soil are all they require. They are capital for the sunny part of a rockery.


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