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Herbs or small shrubs; epigynous disc usually swelling at the base of the styles on the fruit Apiaceae

Leaves and bracts pungent pointed. Flowers in dense heads or short cylindrical spikes Eryngium

Plants less than 1 m high

Main stems very short; branches long, prostrate, like stolons but not rooting at the nodes. Basal leaves lanceolate to broad-linear, 4–15 cm long, with spreading spiny teeth. Valleys of the western Blue Mts Fl. summer–autumn Eryngium vesiculosum