Asteraceae Echinops kebericho Mesfin
in Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg, 23b: 616 (1990).
Distribution: Ethiopia.

I get requests for the "English" or common name
for plants all the time and it really annoys me that people
will ignore a plants real name in preference for an essentially
useless meaningless common name that could easily be used
by dozens of other species of plants.

Echinops kebericho is the correct name for the plant your
interested in, stick with it. Use that name to search the internet
using Google or other search engines. It will provide a wealth of
information and you know its the correct species as your using
the correct name. Search by a common name and you'll get
all sorts of useless information as you can't be certain what
species the information relates to. I found this pretty quickly.

Echinops kebericho Mesfin Family: Asteraceae
Chemical information including known chemo-types
The roots of E. kebericho were investigated by Abegaz et al. (1991).
These workers reported that it contains copious amounts of a
sesquiterpene lactone known as dehydorcostus lactone along with
small amounts of costunolide....

and this reference

Mintesnot Ashebir and Mogessie Ashenafi. (1999).
Evaluation of the antibacterial activity of crude preparations of
Zingiber officinale (zinjibl), Echinops sp. (Kebericho),
Coriandrum sativum (dimbilal) and Cymbopogan citratus (tej
sar) on some food-borne pathogens. Ethiopian Journal of Health
Sciences. 9, 33-40.

Physically the plant looks pretty much like any other Echinops
spp. nothing special or distinctive in its appearance.

cheers,

thank you for your answer, i need the english name for a paper work for my m.a.
may i ask another question: do you have any information about the plant "silen macroselen"? if you do please tell me all about il

and again- thanks

Again the common name is worthless, and if you can't find one its
perfectly legitimate to make one up. Anyone can do it, pick a name,
any name, and use it.

As for the "silen macroselen"? do you mean Silene macrosolen?
Its a native of central east Africa. I don't know anymore about the species.