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Eryngium creticum
Eryngium creticum, the field eryngo, is a spiny, blue-flowered member of the carrot family from the Mediterranean and Iran, grown mainly as a hardy wildflower. It thrives in sunny, well-drained, lean soil like the field and path edges it naturally colonises.
Eryngium creticum, or the field eryngo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the Northern and Eastern Mediterranean, eastwards to Iran. It is known in Lebanon as قرصعنة.
It is native to the Northern and Eastern Mediterranean, eastwards to Iran, and naturalised in some further countries—native in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, and introduced into France.
The plant is used medicinally. Its stems are used to make an anti-tussive tea that is also used for kidney inflammation. It is also used as a remedy for scorpion stings in Jordan and to treat hypoglycemia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eryngium creticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
