Scolymus maculatus

Annuals with stems up to 150 cm, glabrous or scabrous and with uninterrupted spiny-dentate wings. Leaves (7)9-14(16) cm, ovate to oblong, pinnatifid, spiny-dentate. Capitula terminal, with more than 5 pinnatifid involucral leaves, aggregated in a corymb-like inflorescence appearing globose.