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Eryngium aquifolium

Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost'

tall eryngo 'Silver Ghost'

An erect, branching biennial with green foliage, and cone-like heads of blue flowers surrounded by spiny, silvery-white bracts appearing in summer

Eryngium campestre

Dane's flower

Eryngium giganteum

Miss Willmott's ghost

A robust biennial or short-lived perennial forming a rosette of heart-shaped basal leaves, and spiny stem leaves, with cone-like umbels of tiny blue flowers sitting within a rosette of spiny silvery-grey bracts

Eryngium maritimum

sea eryngo

A clump-forming perennial to around 60cm in height. Leaves are waxy, stiff and spiny, blue-green in colour with white veins. Flowerheads of globular blue umbels are borne in April to September surrounded by collars of spiky bracts

Eryngium paniculatum

Eryngium ternatum

Eryngium horridum Malme

Eryngium planum 'Blaukappe'

blue eryngo 'Blaukappe'

A clump-forming perenniual with rounded basal leaves; erect, branched stems bear deeply-lobed, blue-tinged, spiny leaves and small, steel-blue, terminal flower-heads with narrow, spiny bracts in summer and early autumn

Eryngium alpinum 'Superbum'

alpine eryngo 'Superbum'

A robust, clump-forming perennial with erect branched stems and spiny, highly divided silvery-green leaves. Flowering in summer, it has large thimble shaped flower-heads with feathery and spiky silvery-blue bracts which can also be very attractive if left on the plant after the flowering period

Eryngium spinalba

silbermannstreu

Eryngium planum 'Tetra Petra'

blue eryngo 'Tetra Petra'

A robust, clump-forming perennial with erect branched stems and spiny, highly divided dark green leaves. Flowering in summer, it has abundant small thimble shaped flower-heads with spiky silvery-blue bracts which can also be very attractive if left on the plant after the flowering period

Eryngium bourgatii 'Oxford Blue'

eryngo 'Oxford Blue'

'Oxford Blue' is an erect herbaceous perennial to 40cm, with clumps of deeply divided basal leaves with prominent whitish veins. Cone-like, deep blue flower-heads 2cm in length are surrounded by silvery-blue, spiny bracts

Eryngium nudicaule

Eryngium planum 'Flüela'

blue eryngo 'Flüela'

A robust, clump-forming perennial with erect branched stems and spiny, highly divided silvery-green leaves. Flowering in summer, it has abundant small thimble shaped flower-heads with spiky silver violet-blue bracts which can also be very attractive if left on the plant after the flowering period

Eryngium

corn snakeroot

Eryngium agavifolium

agave-leaved eryngo

A handsome evergreen perennial forming a rosette of sharply toothed, sword-shaped leaves to 45cm long, with small, green thimble-like flower-heads on branched stems in late summer

Eryngium alpinum

alpine eryngo

An erect herbaceous perennial to 90cm, with heart-shaped, glossy dark green basal leaves. Large, cone-like, purplish flower-heads surrounded by 6cm in length vivid blue, spiny bracts, borne on blue stems

Eryngium amethystinum

amethyst eryngo

A semi-evergreen, clump-forming perennial to around 70cm tall forming a rosette of divided basal leaves. Egg-shaped to rounded, steel blue flowerheads to 2cm long are borne on upright, branching stems often also coloured a deep blue; each flowerhead is surrounded by spreading blue-silver bracts

Eryngium bourgatii

Mediterranean eryngo

An herbaceous perennial to 45cm tall, with deeply lobed and silver-veined leaves, and vivid blue, branched stems bearing cone-like flower-heads with narrow, spiny, usually silvery-blue or violet bracts