Eryngium bithynicumBoiss. Çakırotu (in Turkish)

Eryngium bithynicumBoiss. - Çakırotu (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Annual or biennial. Stem angled and sulcate, 15−20 cm, branched from below the middle. Basal leaves often withering at flowering time, subcoriaceous, ovate-oblong to trilobed, crenate-muticous. Median cauline leaves sessile, pinnatifid to palmatifid into lanceolate spinulose-margined lobes. Inflorescence glaucous or bluish, richly paniculate and domed; capitula numerous, less than 15-flowered, hemispherical, 6−10 mm diam. Bracts 5(−6), lanceolate, flat, pungent, usually spinulose-margined, 2−3(−4) × capitulum. Bracteoles tricuspidate.

 

Flowering time: June−September.

Habitat: Steppe, fallow fields, eroded banks, 100−1400 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH (1972). Eryngium bithynicum L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 299.

Public Description:

Eryngium bithynicum, is an endemic species to Türkiye and known as “çakırotu” in Turkish. It is an annual or biennial herb with glaucous flowers and grows up to 20 cm in length. It blooms between June and September and is found in steppe, fallow fields and eroded banks.

 

References:

Anonymous (2015). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=4062, Accessed date: 20.12.2015.

Menemen Y (2012). Eryngium 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. 59–60.