Onopordon

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

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Read about Onopordon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Onopordon (old Greek name). Sometimes written Onopordum. Composite. Coarse woolly Old World herbs. Stems stout (sometimes acaulescent). winged by the decurrent bases of the Lvs., which are large, alternate, prickly, dentate or pinnately cut: involucre globose, the bracts imbricated in many series, and in some cases spiny; receptacle flat, fleshy, honeycombed, not bristly; pappus not plumose, but with bristles in several series. —About 12 species, annual and biennial. O. Salteri, Hort. "Plant pyramidal in habit, about 5 ft. high, silvery shining. Lowest Lvs. widely spreading on the ground, incised, spiny, upper reduced." Country unknown. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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