Eryngium pseudothorifolium

An Eryngo with single upright stem based with roundish, shield-like, saw-toothed greyish leaves and some smaller ones up the stem, flowering with 1-3 yellowy-green flower heads. Photos.

It naturally grows on marly soil, and apart from Eryngium thorifolium lacks close allies ^[3].

It may be confused with Eryngium thorifolium ^[4], whose leaves are rounder-topped and much more indented at the base, with many more flower heads on some branches, and which grows on rocky serpentine soil; and also with species of Pimpinella such as Pimpinella flabellifolia.

It is native to Turkey only ^[1], in the far south-west ^[2].