Eryngium bithynicum, in Turkish , is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to Turkey.
Description and habitat An Eryngo with somewhat widely-spreading diffuse display of bluish flowers on slender blue branches. The groundmost leaves spread out in a circle and are usually fairly simple or may be 2–3 lobed, and wither by flowering, the leaves above being of a different kind with more complex, broadish, toothier lobing.
It is easily confused with a number of similar Eryngo—each flowerhead is surrounded by 5(6) slender spine–leaves somewhat broadening from tip to base, and within the head each small flower is attended by a 3-part spine; inflorescence stems are strongly channeled and the flowers in a head are not numerous (usually fewer than 15). Photos.
It naturally likes steppe, fallow fields, eroded banks, , flowering June to September.
Distribution It is native to Turkey only; its distribution in Turkey is the western half, avoiding the southern edge.
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