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Echinops pungens; photograph (c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2022-05-22

Echinops pungens Trautv.

Asteraceae · Transcaucasus, Iran +1

No habitat climate
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Echinops pungens, photograph (c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY)Echinops pungens, photograph (c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY)Echinops pungens, photograph (c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY)Echinops pungens, photograph Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 5 photographs ›

About the genus · Echinops

Echinops is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles. They have spiny foliage and produce blue or white spherical flower heads. They are distributed from central Asia, Mongolia and north-eastern China to the Mediterranean basin, temperate regions of Eurasia, reaching to Indian subcontinent and tropical Africa. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Echinops", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 11 of the 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTranscaucasus, Iran, Turkey · introduced: Germany · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker40.183, 45.25 · in the densest population, 8 records (57% of those in range)
Kew's description“temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 14 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 11 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 14 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Echinops 15 in the reference

Echinops adenocaulos Echinops adenocaulos Globe thistle Photo: CC BY, Jared LincenbergEchinops bannaticus Echinops bannaticus Blue globe-thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedEchinops cornigerus Echinops cornigerus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Edmundas GreimasEchinops davuricus Echinops davuricus Asteraceae Photo: CC0, prodewaldEchinops echinatus Echinops echinatus Indian globe thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedEchinops exaltatus Echinops exaltatus Globe-thistle Photo: CC BY, Nasser HalawehEchinops grijsii Echinops grijsii Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedEchinops humilis Echinops humilis Dwarf globe-thistle Photo: CC BY, Надежда Костюкова Echinops niveus Asteraceae Echinops orientalis Echinops orientalis Oriental Globe Thistle Photo: CC BY, Mikhail NevskyEchinops ossicus Echinops ossicus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Илья РуденкоEchinops ritro Echinops ritro Southern globethistle Photo: CC BY, Michael Andresek all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Echinops adenocaulis; Echinops bornmuelleri; Echinops heldreichii; Echinops persicus; Echinops pungens subsp. pungens and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Trautv.
Native to
Transcaucasus, Iran, Turkey
Wild records
14 in range · 10 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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