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Botanical details
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Genus
Cynara
- Genus description
Cynara are robust thistle-like plants with grey-hairy, pinnately lobed leaves and globose purple flower-heads
- Name status
Correct
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