Carduus carlinoides, Gouan

39. C. carlinoides Gouan View in CoL , Obs. Bot. 62 (1773)

( C. pyrenaicus (L.) F. W. Schultz , non Gouan).

Perennial up to 40 cm. Stem densely white-tomentose; wings up to 6 mm wide, triangular, with an apical spine up to 5 mm. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, with floccose-arachnoid hairs above, densely white-tomentose beneath with long, sinuate unicellular hairs, with palmate lobes. Capitula 18-25 x 12-15 mm, subsessile, in dense clusters of 5-15; involucral bracts closely imbricate, the outer and middle gradually tapering into a spiny apex, arachnoid-hairy, with entire and faintly scarious margin, the mid-vein raised throughout its length; inner bracts veinless, scarious at apex. Corolla 14-16 mm. Achenes 4-5 mm, swollen, smooth; apical prominence sessile, entire; pappus 13-16 mm. 2« = 18. Screes and stony slopes, b Pyrenees and mountains of Spain. Ga Hs.