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Syrian eryngo
Eryngium creticum
Eryngium creticum, or the field eryngo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. It is known in Lebanon and Palestine as قرصعنة and in Israel as חרחבינה מכחילה.
From the article Eryngium creticum on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
An Eryngo with widely-spreading diffuse display of blue flowers on slender blue branches. The groundmost leaves spread out in a circle and are fairly simple (0-2 smaller lobes may be present), and wither by flowering, the leaves above being of a different kind with more complex, broadish, toothier lobing. It is easily confused with a number of similar Eryngo—each flowerhead is surrounded by 5(6) slender spine-leaves, and within the head each small flower is attended by a 3-part spine; inflorescence stems are not channeled and the flowers in a head are numerous. It naturally likes field and path edges, rocky and waste places, and similar habitats.
Wikipedia: “Description and Habitat”
Range & habitat
It is native to the Northern and Eastern Mediterranean, eastwards to Iran, and naturalised in some further countries—native in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, and introduced into France.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
At the table
The plant is used medicinally. Its stems are used to make an anti-tussive tea that is also used for kidney inflammation. It is also used as a remedy for scorpion stings in Jordan and to treat hypoglycemia.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Eryngium creticum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 338668.