Solved Another mystery Plant.

Mystery plant time again folks.

This one has popped up in my garden and it's a new one to me. Don't even know if it's a wild plant or a cultivated one.

A brief description:

• It's about three feet in height
• The leaves, which are all around the base of the plant are shiny and up to six to eight inches in length.
• The plant is smooth stemmed and the flower heads, which haven't quite opened yet are surrounded by what appear to be green, slightly toothed bracts. The unopened flower heads in the third photo are quite small, no more than half an inch (or about a centimetre) in diameter.

Any ideas?

 

eryngium???

 

Thought about it @pete , but I've grown Eryngium before and the leaves just don't look right.

 

Looks as if you were right after all @pete. I've just found there is a smooth leaved Eryngium - E. planum. Looks as if it might be that one.

Should have a better idea when the flowers open.

 

Its defiantly a eryngium , I've grown E.planum which has the same leaves, weren't so keen on it got a bit to tall / floppy

 

It's flowering now. Definitely looks like Eryngium planum.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction @pete

 

A nice plant @Trunky

 

It’s sea holly, which I think is eryngium, so agree with the others I D.

 

There are many different Eryngium sp as well as cultivars.
There is a dwarf one with tiny flowers.... very cute.
Eryngium planum Blue Hobbit.

Eryngium planum Blue Hobbit. - Google Search

Leaves on some sp are very different..eg Eryngium agavifolium.

Eryngium agavifolium - Google Search

 

Don't think that's an Eryngium Marley. Looks like Echinops ritro to me.

 

Echinops.