Genus Carthamus L. Fam: Asteraceae (Compositae)
Genus: Carthamus L.
English Name: Safflowers, Distaff thistles
Description:Hardy herbaceous plants with spiny, toothed or cut feather-like leaves. Hermaphrodite flowers; less peripheral blossoms are female or sexless. Baskets single or collected in thyroid inflorescence and surrounded by the upper leaves, which gradually pass into sheets shell. Wrapping notes end with little thistle, prickly cilia or ruptured appendix. Blossoms yellow, purple or blue. Fruits naked back oval, 4-wall or flattened, usually without protruding ribs. Kite composed of flakes or bristles, and sometimes lacking. Torus with flakes. 1. Blossoms yellow. Kite fetal rusty ………………............................................................................................…………. (2) C. lanatus L.
1*. Blossoms red. Kite fetal brown ………………............................................................................................………. (1). С. dentatus Vahl.(1). C. dentatus Vahl. (Annual plants) – In dry stony places. Scattered in the southernmost parts of the Struma valley, Eastern Rhodopes and Sakar Mountain. “Zarevo” region (1). VI - IX.
(2). C. lanatus L. (Annual plants - Biennial plants) – In dry stony places. It occurs almost throughout Bulgaria (1). VII - IX. (F, JI). Fig. 1487.
Remark: C. tinctorius L. (Annual plants – Biennial plants) - Aspurt, safflower - cultivated. Homeland tropical Africa.
References: „Флора на България”, Н. Стоянов, Б. Стефанов, Б. Китанов, част II, Наука и Изкуство, София, (1967)
Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
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Carthamus lanatus L. - Saffron thistle, Woolly safflower