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Mantisalca salmantica

dagger-flower
Herbage

cobwebby-tomentose proximally, glabrous distally.
Stems

usually 1, leafless distally.
Leaves

basal blades oblong, 10–25 cm, margins pinnately lobed;

cauline linear to lanceolate, smaller distally, dentate to pinnately dissected.
Involucres

ovoid, distally narrowed.
Corollas

± purple (rarely white).
Phyllaries

greenish or stramineous, apically blackish, spine tips deciduous, spreading or reflexed, 1–3 mm.
Heads

long-pedunculate.
Cypselae

dark brown, 3–4 mm;

pappus bristles brownish white or reddish, 2–3 mm.
2n

= 18 (Italy), 20 (North Africa), 22 (Europe).

Mantisalca salmantica
Phenology Flowering spring–early summer (May–Jun).
Habitat Disturbed sites
Elevation 0–1700 m (0–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; Europe; n Africa [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Mantisalca salmantica is native to the Mediterranean region. It is considered an uncommon introduction into disturbed sites.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 174.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cardueae > Mantisalca
Synonyms Centaurea salmantica
Name authority (Linnaeus) Briquet & Cavillier: Biblioth. Universelle Rev. Suisse, pér. 5, 5: 111. (1930)
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