Other commonly grown ornamental species include Eryngium alpinum, E. variifolium, E. tripartitum, E. bromeliifolium, and the biennial E. giganteum.

Eryngium alpinum

* Eryngium alpinum

The biological form of Eryngium alpinum is hemicryptophyte scapose, as its overwintering buds are situated just below the soil surface and the floral axis is more or less erect with a few leaves.

File: Eryngium alpinum Atlas Alpenflora. jpg | Illustration of Eryngium alpinum from Atlas der Alenflora, 1882

File: Apiaceae-Eryngium alpinum-2. JPG | Plant of Eryngium alpinum

File: Eryngium alpinum 2. JPG | Plants of Eryngium alpinum

File: Apiaceae-Eryngium alpinum-1. JPG | Inflorescences of Eryngium alpinum

* Flora Europaea: Eryngium alpinum

* Germplasm Resources Information Network: Eryngium alpinum

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The Sea holly ( Eryngium maritimum ) is a species of Eryngium in the plant family Apiaceae and native to most European coastlines.

Eryngium is a genus in the family Apiaceae of about 230 species of annuals and perennials with hairless and usually spiny leaves, and dome-shaped umbels of flowers resembling those of thistles.

Eryngium maritimum is a perennial plant native to Europe and often found on sea shores.

Among the best known of these is Eryngium bourgatii ( illustrated ), a perennial with stunning green, prickly foliage marbled with silver.

Eryngium foetidum is a culinary herb used widely in Latin America and Southeast Asia.

It should not be confused with culantro ( Eryngium foetidum L .) which is a close relative to coriander ( Coriandrum sativum L .) but has a distinctly different appearance, a much more potent volatile leaf oil and a stronger smell.

* Hobbit, also Blue Hobbit, is a common name of the plant Eryngium planum

The genus name ( Eryngium ) is probably derived from the Greek " erungion ", a word that recalls the hedgehog.

* Eryngium pinnatifidum, a plant from Western Australia

Image: Eryngium maritimum 1. jpg | Whole plant, Meia Praia beach, Lagos, Portugal

), celery ( Apium graveolens ), arracacha ( Arracacia xanthorrhiza ), poison hemlock ( Conium maculatum ), sea holly ( Eryngium spp.

Many species of Eryngium have a history of use.

The roots, such as of Eryngium yuccifolium and Eryngium maritimum, are potent inflammation modulators and may have other properties.

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Image: Eryngium maritimum 2. jpg | Flowers, Meia Praia beach, Lagos, Portugal

The larvae feed on Diplotaxis pendula, Succowia balearica, Moricandia arvensis, Eruca vesicaria, Cleome arabica, Reseda villosa, Eryngium tenue and Diplotaxis acris.

Larval host plants in Europe are Eryngium, Lotus, Coronilla, Medicago, Hippocrepis etc.

alba ), hawkweeds like the Brocken Hawkweed ( Hieracium negrescens ) and the Alpine Hawkweed ( Hieracium alpinum ), vernal grasses ( Anthoxanthum ), the Lady's Mantle ( Alchemilla ), the Tormentil ( Potentilla tormentilla ), the Alpine Clubmoss ( Diphasiastrum alpinum ), the lichens, Iceland Moss ( Cetraria islandica ) and Reindeer Lichen ( Cladonia rangiferina ).

He was interested in Alpine flora, and was responsible for development of the alpinum at Schloss Belvedere in Vienna.

* Thalictrum alpinum – Alpine Meadow-rue

* Diphasiastrum alpinum Alpine Clubmoss ( circumpolar, subarctic and alpine )

* Chrysosplenium alpinum ( Alpine Golden Saxifrage )

Image: Leontopodium alpinum. jpg | Edelweiss, Julian Alps, Slovenia

In the Alps, for example, the most distributed species are Sempervivum tectorum ( Common Houseleek, sometimes called Sempervivum alpinum ), Sempervivum montanum ( Mountain Houseleek ) and Sempervivum arachnoideum ( Cobwebbed Houseleek ), each one with several subspecies.

Edelweiss, Latin: Leontopodium alpinum, is a well-known mountain flower, belonging to the sunflower family.

The first scientific name for Leontopodium alpinum which was validly published according to the current binomial nomenclature is Gnaphalium alpinum in the first edition ( 1753 ) of Linnaeus's Species Plantarum.

Leontopodium alpinum is grown in gardens for its interesting inflorescence and silver foliage.

However, in 1997, Dr. Thomas Clausen — the biochemist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who examined the wild potato plant ( Hedysarum alpinum ) for Jon Krakauer — concluded after exhaustive testing that no part of H. alpinum is toxic.

Leontopodium alpinum, edelweiss or floare de colţ is a protected species in Romania since 1933

Leontopodium is a genus of plants in the daisy family, which includes edelweiss ( Leontopodium alpinum ), a well-known plant from the mountains of Europe.