Euboea biodiversity

This guide has been created to understand which species of fauna and flora existed in Evia (Euboea) in Greece before the Mega Wildfire which destroyed about 1/4 of the island.

Perennial Cornflower 1
Centaurea montana
milk thistle 2
Silybum marianum
Yellow Starthistle 3
Centaurea solstitialis
bull thistle 4
Cirsium vulgare
Italian thistle 5
Carduus pycnocephalus
purple star-thistle 6
Centaurea calcitrapa
woolly distaff thistle 7
Carthamus lanatus
smooth distaff thistle 8
Carthamus creticus
musk thistle 9
Carduus nutans
whitestem distaff thistle
Carthamus leucocaulos
cotton thistle 10
Onopordum acanthium
squarrose knapweed 11
Centaurea triumfettii

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