Asteraceae
Great globethistle
Echinops sphaerocephalus
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Echinops
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Common names
By language (29)
- Arabic
- قنفذي كروي الرأس, رِعْي الإبل
- Armenian
- Ոզնենի կլորագլուխ
- arz
- قنفذى كروى الراس
- Azerbaijani
- Girdəbaş toppuztikan
- Belarusian
- Мардоўнік круглагаловы, Дзед, Мардоўнік, Мардоўнік шарагаловы
- bsk
- چچر
- Bulgarian
- Кръглоглав челядник
- Catalan
- Card d’eriçó, Card eriçat, Card tucà
- Chinese
- 蓝刺头, 藍刺頭
- Czech
- Bělotrn kulatohlavý
- Dutch
- Beklierde kogeldistel
- English
- Great globethistle, Glandular globe-thistle, Great globe-thistle, Pale globe-thistle
- Estonian
- Valkjas mesiohakas
- Finnish
- Valkopallo-ohdake
- French
- Oursin à têtes rondes, Azurette
- German
- Drüsenblättrige Kugeldistel, Drüsige Kugeldistel, Bienen-Kugeldistel
- Hungarian
- Fehér szamárkenyér
- Italian
- Cardo-pallottola maggiore
- Kazakh
- Қазақ лақсасы
- kbd
- Банэхъурей
- Latvian
- Apaļgalvas ežziede
- Lithuanian
- Apskritagalvis bandrenis
- os
- Тымбылсæр сындз
- Polish
- Przegorzan kulisty
- Russian
- Мордовник шароголовый, Мордовник ереванский, Мордовник круглоголовый
- Slovak
- Ježibaba guľatohlavá
- Slovenian
- Oblasti bodoglavec
- Swedish
- Bolltistel
- Welsh
- Ysgallen bengron chwarennog
Synonyms
- Echinops altaicus hort. ex DC.
- Echinops cirsiifolius K.Koch
- Echinops cirsiifolius (K.Koch) Grossh.
- Echinops dagestanicus Iljin
- Echinops erevanensis Mulk.
- Echinops horridus Link
- Echinops macedonicus Formánek
- Echinops major St.-Lag.
- Echinops maximus Siev.
- Echinops maximus Siev. ex Pall.
- Echinops multiflorus Lam.
- Echinops paniculatus J.Jacq.
- Echinops rochelianus var. cirsiifolius K.Koch
- Echinops sphaerocephalus var. koelzii (Rech.f.) Parsa
- Echinops sphaerocephalus var. sphaerocephalus
- Echinops villosus hort. ex DC.
- Echinops viscosus Rchb.
Flowers
- In flower
- July to August (from 532 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Adam Kranz, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Georg Slickers, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: pajot_1, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Christine Young, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dezidor, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: g3j0vdw, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Liubov Ilminska, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Le.Loup.Gris, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: yakovenko20, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.