Stemless carline thistle

Physical Characteristics.
Use: indispensable for dry arrangement. Looks like an unusual "bush" before flowering. Carlina is especially good as a single plant against a stone background.
Annual, biennial or perennial rhizomatous plants. The leaves are prickly, bristly or prickly. The flowers are small, all tubular, white, yellowish or purple, collected in a typical inflorescence for the family - a single basket, or they form a racemose inflorescence.

 

Eng.: Stemless carline thistle, dwarf thistle, silver thistle, stemless thistle. Suom.: Hopeakurho, tähtikurho. Sven.: Silvertistel, stjärntistel.