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Carduus uncinatus Bieb.

Flora Europaea perennial, H xeric steppe species which occasionaly can act also like a ruderal Pontic-Caucasian Festucion rupicolae, sometimes as a ruderal in Onopordetalia R34 habitats from Dobrudja and occasionaly in R87s from the same region       This is a typical Pontic steppe species present in Romania only in Dobrudja and very locally in southern Moldavia (Smardan, Galati county) It is to be noticed that the anthodia in this species remind a lot the ones of Jurinea glycacantha but the rest of the plant habit immediately shows that we deal with a Carduus species. Pictures taken from outside Romania, in Ukraine, May 2009 Bartha Lazslo, PhD student, bartha19@yahoo.com