Carduus adpressus C.A.Mey. Tomara (in Turkish)

Carduus adpressus C.A.Mey. - Tomara (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Perennial (rarely flowering in first year), 20−100 cm, subglabrous or hairy. Stem usually broadly sinuate-winged with triangular, entire or lobulate shortly spinulose-margined lobes, sparingly branched above. Cauline leaves deeply pinnatipartite, primary segments often overlapping, varying from broadly ovate and shortly 2−3-lobed to oblong and unequally pinnatifid, apices and margins shortly and weakly spinulose, lower surface grey-tomentosus to weakly arachnoid or subglabrous. Peduncles long, 4−20 cm, naked and tomentosus above. Capitula subsolitary. Involucre globose, weakly floccose to subglabrous, 17−22 mm long; phyllaries gradually imbricate, all usually adpressed, outer narrowly oblong, 1-nerved distally, very obtuse and shortly spinulose-mucronate, median similar but more attenuate and subacute, inner scarious and linear-subulate. Corollas zygomorphic, purple, 17−20 mm. Achenes 4−5,5 mm; pappus 12−14 mm.

 

Flowering time: July−August.

Habitat: Water meadows, pastures, rocky slopes and ridges, usually 1800−2600 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH (1975). Carduus adpressus C.A.Mey., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 428.

Public Description:

Carduus adpressus, known as “tomara” in Turkish, is native to Bulgaria, Türkiye, Western Caucasus. It is a perennial herb with purple flowers, and grows up to 100 cm in length. It blooms between July and August and is found in water meadows, pastures, rocky slopes and ridges.

 

References:

Anonymous (2017). http://e-ecodb.bas.bg/rdb/en/vol1/Caradpre.html,Accessed date: 14.11.2017.

Arabacı T (2012). Carduus L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 122–125.