Key to Onopordum
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(For a list of species in Onopordum, use the above link.)
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1' Herbage ± canescent-tomentose
2. Leaves dentate 
Having margins with sharp, relatively coarse teeth pointing outward, not tipward.
to shallowly lobed;
phyllaries linear 
Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.
;
corolla lobes 
1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.
not
glandular ..... O. acanthium subsp. acanthium 2' Leaves ± deeply 1–2 × lobed; phyllaries
lanceolate 
Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.
to
ovate 
Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
; corolla lobes glandular-puberulent
..... O. illyricum
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