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Eryngium species, flowers
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Eryngium species, flowers

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35mm color slide
Digitized
Photographic image
July 2004
Eryngium species (sea holly, blue sea holly, sea star thistle, star thistle, blue eryngo) has small thistle-like blue flower heads. Each flower head is composed of tiny flowers arranged in a sphere and is surrounded by gray-blue or green-blue bracts that resemble petals.  
 
Eryngium L.
Perennials (Plants)
Apiaceae (carrot family)
Flowers
Plants
Sharon Yiesla Photograph Collection
Eryngium
Olbrich Botanical Garden, Madison, Wisconsin
Copyright statement: ©Sharon Yiesla

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