Category: Rarium | Sub-Category: Perennials for Sun
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Echinops tjanschanicus
Family: (Asteraceae)
(P) to 5′. A tall, imposing Globe Thistle from Kazakhstan and the mountains of Central Asia. A vigorous, erect, clump-forming, architectural perennial with spiny, deeply-divided, grey-green leaves, white beneath, and rounded, thistle-like, violet-blue flowerheads in summer. Both Echinops make great cut flowers. Sun. 4 & T2
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