Code
SCYGR
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Biennial (H2) to vivacious (H).
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Myscolus grandiflorus D.Dietr. |
| synonym | Myscolus megacephalus Cass. |
| synonym | Scolymus hispanicus subsp. grandiflorus (Desf.) P.Fourn. |
| synonym | Scolymus hispanicus subsp. grandiflorus (Desf.) Rouy |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Seedling
Quite similar to that of Scolymus hispanicus. Cotyledons elliptic large, 16-22 x 8-10 mm, short-stalked, with rounded apex, glabrous. Primordial leaves rosette-shaped, simple, lanceolate to elliptic, toothed with broad soft indentations and long spines. Leaves and petioles hairy. The hypoctyled axis is short and thick. Plantlet of a shiny green.
Adult plant
Scolymus grandiflorus is a thorny perennial, which can reach 50 cm in height. Stem erect, simple or little branched, strongly winged, with continuous spiny wings, pubescent. Leaves simple, sessile, deeply pennatifid, the linear cauline ones, little embracing but decurrent, the base extending in spiny foliaceous wing along the stem. The upper leaves forming an involucre at the base of the capitula, with pubescent underside. Capitula sessile in leaf axils or along terminal axis, or pedunculate terminals, large (10)12-20(21) mm in diameter (twice the diameter of capitula of S. hispanicus). Involucre formed of 1-3 involucral outer leaves oval, lanceolate with acute, mucronate spiny apex and margin with long coarse spiny teeth and linear oblong inner bracts mucronate, in 2-3 rows. Florets all yellow ligulate with ligule up to 3 cm long, short bi-tridentate at apex. Achenes 3.5-5 mm, strongly compressed dorsally, intimately enclosed in the scales of the receptacle, surmounted by a pappus of 2-5 stiff, smooth setae.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Vivacious
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Algeria: Scolymus grandiflorus has an autumn germination and a flowering from March to June (earlier and shorter than S. hispanicus).
Morocco: Scolymus grandiflorus flowers from April to June.
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Reproduction
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Scolymus grandiflorus regenerates from a persistent stump and reproduces by seed.
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Size
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Latex
White latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
Decurrent leaf
Fruit type
Achene
Achene type
Achene flat
Cotyledon type
emarginate
Lamina base
sheathing grass-like broader
Lamina margin
largely dentate
Lamina apex
apiculate
Upperface pilosity
Dense hairy
Upperface hair type
Pubescent
Lowerface pilosity
Dense hairy
Lowerface hair type
Pubescent
Simple leaf type
Lamina linear
Lamina deeply lobed
Lamina section
embossed
Lamina Veination
Curved and united with the vein above
Flower color
Yellow
Inflorescence type
Raceme with alternate sessile flowers
Capitule with ligulate flowers
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Stem hair type
Pubescent
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Look Alikes
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Scolymus grandiflorus can be confused with S. hispanicus and S. maculatus.
S. maculatus can be distinguished by the presence of 5 involucral leaves around the flower head and achenes without pappus, a whitish stem with continuous spiny wings
S. hispanicus is distinguished by 1-3 involucral leaves around the flower head, a flower head of 6-10 mm diameter and a pappus of scabrous bristles at the top of the achenes, a whitish green stem with interrupted wings
S. grandiflorus is distinguished by 1-3 involucral leaves around the flower head, a flower head 12-20 mm in diameter, a pappus of hairless bristles at the apex of the achene and a green uninterrupted winged stem.
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Physiology
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Scolymus grandiflorus is a C3 species.
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Ecology
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Algeria: Scolymus grandiflorus is a less frequent species than S. hispanicus, occurring in perennial crops (vineyards, orchards) throughout the Mediterranean area of Algeria. This species has a preference for silty to sandy soils.
Morocco: Scolymus grandiflorus is a rare species that grows on clay soils, pastures, wasteland and the edges of crops on sublittoral plains and hills with good rainfall, from 0 to 600 m altitude.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
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Origin
Scolymus grandiflorus is native to the Mediterranean area (France, Italy, Syria and North Africa).
Algeria: Common species in the Tell.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local harmfulness
Algeria: Scolymus grandiflorus is a minor "weed". Uncommon and not very abundant, it does not generally constitute a nuisance for the crops.
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
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Food: Scolymus grandiflorus in the young stage is consumed raw and one harvests in winter the sheets of which the ribs are used as vegetable, at this time they are generally mixed with other vegetables to accompany the couscous.
Fodder : Plant grazed by the livestock except in the dry state.
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📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:243008-1
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/scolymus-grandifl.-cle.html
- CABI https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.116990
Information Listing > References
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:243008-1
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/scolymus-grandifl.-cle.html
- CABI https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.116990
Images
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=scolymus%2520grandiflorus
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Asterales |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Genus | Scolymus |
| Species | Scolymus grandiflorus Desf. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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