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Bayer Code : ciira

Scientific name: Carlina racemosa L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Carlina lanata sensu Willk

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: racemose carlina

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Kletten-Haftdolde ; ES : cardo de la uva ; FR : carline laineuse ; IT : carlina minore ; PT : cardo-asnil ; EN : racemose carlina ;

Biological type: Annual, Perennial


Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical, obtuse or round on top, attenuate at base and glabrous.

- Leaves alternate, narrow, ovate,lanceolate, slightly arachnoid- floccose.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

-Height: 10-60 cm.

-Stem erect glabrous arachnoid-floccose.

- Basal leaves in rosette, rest alternate. All prickly edged and undulating dentate, lanceolate.

- Flowers in subsessile capitulum, the one at the top superseded by the branched axillaries.

- Fruit approx. 2mm and pappus approx. 6 mm.

- Risk of confusion with : Carduus tenuiflorus , Carlina corymbosa et Cirsium arvense in rosette.

- Biological type : annual or perennial.

Mistake with: Carduus tenuiflorus , Carlina corymbosa , Cirsium arvense


Ecological profile (click on flags): Spain   Rare     Portugal  Present    

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