Epitrachys italica is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae.

It is a thistle native to Europe and Turkey, ranging from Germany, France, and Italy to Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, and northwestern Turkey.

[1] The species was first named Cirsium italicum by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1813.

In 2022 it was renamed Epitrachys italica, and placed in the monotypic genus Epitrachys.

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