- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›carrots, ivies, and allies
- ›carrot family
- ›Saniculoideae
- ›Saniculeae
- ›Eryngium
- ›Eryngium
Miss Willmott's Ghost
Eryngium giganteum
Eryngium giganteum, with the common name Miss Willmott's ghost, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.
The short-lived herbaceous perennial thistle is native to the Caucasus and Iran in Western Asia.
From the article Eryngium giganteum on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Eryngium giganteum grows to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). It produces branched heads of pale green conical flowerheads surrounded by spiny bracts in summer. The flowers turn blue at maturity. It usually dies after flowering and is therefore normally grown as a biennial.
How it is grown
It is cultivated as an ornamental plant for use in gardens. Both the species and its cultivar 'Silver Ghost' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The common name refers to Ellen Willmott, who is said to have carried seeds at all times, planting them in the gardens of fellow horticulturalists.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Cultivation”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Eryngium giganteum 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 359455.