Eryngium campestre L.
Field Eryngo
Field Eryngo, also known as Watling Street thistle, is a perennial plant with tough, stiff, whitish-green leaves that are long-stalked and pinnate. The plant is hairless, prickly, and has spines on the leaf lobes. It resembles sea holly but is taller and less robust with paler stems and leaves. The flower heads are white, smaller, and more globular than those of sea holly.
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Apiales
Apiaceae
Eryngium
The plant contains essential oils, saponins, and tannins. The active constituents of Eryngium campestre include a variety of triterpene saponins.
Eryngium campestre is used in herbalism to treat coughs, whooping cough, and urinary infections. The roots have been candied as sweets or boiled and roasted as a vegetable. In Iran's Mazandaran Province, it has been used in various local dishes for centuries.
July to September
Taller than sea holly but exact height not specified
White
Common in dry grassland on neutral or calcareous soils, particularly in Central and Southern Europe. In the British Isles, it is uncommon and has statutory protection in Somerset and Devon.
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