Glandular Globe-thistle
Echinops sphaerocephalus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 75 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Great globethistle
Formerly Echinopus sphaerocephalus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Siberia and XinjiangKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ECHSPH
- French
- Échinops à tête ronde
- German
- Drüsenblättrige Kugeldistel, Drüsige Kugeldistel
- Czech
- bělotrn kulatohlavý
- Chinese (China)
- 欧亚蓝刺头
- Russian
- Мордовник шароголовый
- Norwegian Bokmål
- kuletistel
- Finnish
- valkopallo-ohdake
- Lithuanian
- Apskritagalvis bandrenis
- Polish
- Przegorzan kulisty
- Japanese
- セイタカヒゴタイ, エキノプス
- Slovak
- ježibaba guľatohlavá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Echinops sphaerocephalus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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