An Eryngo with moderately sized stems, to , and complex fine-lobed leaves, becoming bluish at maturity. Each flowerhead is surrounded by 6–10 slender spine-leaves (2–7 cm), and within the head each small flower is attended by a largish spine (9–18 mm, simple, except the outer ones may be divided into 3). It grows in
Fethiye (
Muğla), southwest Turkey, at on serpentine ground, and takes its name from its
Babadağ ("Mt. Baba") site. In Turkey it most resembles
Eryngium kotschyi, differing by its base leaves being finer (width 2–3 mm, not to 7 mm), its stem leaves being finer (0.5–1 mm not 1–2 mm) with much longer terminal lobe (6–11 cm not 5–6 cm), larger whorled leaves under the heads, among other differences; and also
Eryngium glomeratum (whose leaf lobes are substantially wider), both being present in the southwest of Turkey. ==Distribution==