Echinops exaltatusSchrad.

tall globethistle

WFO wfo-0000091342 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Andrew Sebastian
fig. a Andrew Sebastian, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-05 / obs. 141351367
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139774563
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. c Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88757192
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. d Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50577486
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Andreas Rockstein
fig. e Andreas Rockstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26703491
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Andreas Rockstein
fig. f Andreas Rockstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 22399732
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Andreas Rockstein
fig. g Andreas Rockstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21054988
Echinops exaltatus, photographed by Andreas Rockstein
fig. h Andreas Rockstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21013257

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Echinops exaltatus is native: Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Ukraine AlbaniaBulgariaItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Echinops exaltatus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Echinops commutatus Juratzka
  • Echinops commutatus f. commutatus
  • Echinops commutatus f. sectatus A.T.Szabó
  • Echinops eglandulosus Schur
  • Echinops globifer Janka
  • Echinops mollis Schur
  • Echinops strictus Fisch. ex Sims.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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