Key to Cynara cardunculus

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(For a list of species in Cynara cardunculus, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Middle phyllaries widely 

obtuse 

Having a short-tapered, blunt tip or base, the sides convex or straight and converging at more than a right angle.

, 

truncate 

Abruptly (not gradually) narrower or smaller at base or tip, as if cut straight across or nearly so.

, or notched, distally with or without spine tip 1–2 mm or 

acuminate 

Having a long-tapered, sharp tip, the sides concave.

with pointed tip 22–38 mm and slender spine 6–9 mm; phyllaries indistinctly ± yellow-margined or not ..... subsp. cardunculus

1' Middle phyllaries 

acute 

Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle.

to short-acuminate, with pointed tip 10–21 mm and spine 2–5(6) mm; phyllaries prominently ± yellow-margined ..... subsp. flavescens

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