Echinops

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Echinops (Greek, like a hedgehog; alluding to the spiny involucral scales). Composite. Globe Thistle. Coarse thistle-like plants, with blue or whitish flowers in globose masses, sometimes used in the wild garden. More or less white-woolly herbs: lvs. alternate, sometimes entire, usually pinnate-dentate or twice or thrice pinnatisect, the lobes and teeth prickly: fls. in globes; the structure of one of the globes is very odd: each fl. in the globe has a little involucre of its own, and the whole globe has one all-embracing involucre; fls. perfect and fertile (or sterile by abortion), corolla regular and no ray-fls.; pappus of many short scales forming a crown: achene elongate, 4-angled or nearly terete, usually villous.—About 60 species, from Spain and Portugal to India and Abyssinia. Globe thistles are coarse-growing plants of the easiest culture, and are suitable for naturalizing in wild gardens and shrubberies. An English gardener with an eye for the picturesque (W. Goldring) recommends massing them against a background of Bocconia cardata, or with such boldly contrasting yellow- or white- flowered plants as Helianthus rigidum or Helianthus multiflorus. The best species is E. ruthenicus (form of E. Ritro). A few scattered individuals of each species are not so effective as a condensed group of one kind. E. ruthenicus flowers in midsummer and for several weeks thereafter. The silvery white stems and handsomely cut prickly foliage of globe thistles are interesting features. They make excellent companions for the blue-stemmed eryngiums. All these plants are attractive to bees, especially E. exaltatus, which has considerable fame as a bee-plant. Globe thistles are sometimes used abroad for perpetual or dry bouquets. E. nivalis, Hort., is a trade name that is unknown in botanical literature. N. Taylor. CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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