Echinops

Echinops cornigerus is very common in the Indus Valley. It grows in roadsides as well as in screes and stony places.

Echinops glaberrimus is a spiny desert perennial.

Echinops philistaeus is an endemic plant of the sandy coastal sands in Israel.

Echinops philistaeus is an endemic plant of the sandy coastal sands in Israel.

Echinops polyceras is very common throughout the desert of southern Israel. The genus Echinops is a difficult one - because most species hybridyze and there is a genetic mish mash along their meeting points.

Echinops sphaerocephalus is quite common in the arid parts of Georgia.

Echinops transcaucasicus is n impressive thistle with a robust white stem. It grows the arid parts of the Caucasus.

A common thistle in Ladakh desert.