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Carlina vulgaris (Asteraceae) 254 17

Carlina vulgaris is a short, stiff and exceptionally spiny plant with a brownish yellow flower–head surrounded by straw coloured, petal like bracts. Although they flower from mid summer to early autumn the dead flowers retain the same appearance and can often be found well into the winter.

Carlina vulgaris is a native monocarpic perennial (the plant dies after flowering) of well-grazed, dry, infertile and calcareous or base-rich soils

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Uploaded on September 12, 2017
Taken on September 11, 2017