Taxon: Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.

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A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AK*°, AL°, AZ*°, CA*°, CO*°, CT*°, DC°, DE*°, FL°, GA°, HI*°, IA*°, ID*°, IL*°, IN*°, KS*°, KY°, LA°, MA°, MD°, ME°, MI*°, MN*°, MO*°, MS°, MT*°, NC*°, ND*°, NE*°, NH°, NJ°, NM*°, NV*°, NY°, OH*°, OK*°, OR*°, PA*°, RI*°, SC°, SD*°, TN°, TX°, UT*°, VA°, VT°, WA°, WI*°, WV(as "Carduus arvensis")°, WY*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

Common names:

• boar thistle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• California thistle   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• Canada thistle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Canadian thistle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• creeping thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• field thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• perennial thistle   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• chardon des champs   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• chardon du Canada   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• cirse des champs   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Acker-Kratzdistel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• cardo-canadense   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• åkertistel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Cirsium arvense from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Anhui, Beijing, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tianjin, Xinjiang, Xizang, Zhejiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Iceland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Greenland
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego; Chile

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cirsium arvense.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cirsium arvense.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cirsium arvense.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Breea arvensis (L.) Less.
  
• (=) Carduus arvensis (L.) E. Robson
  
• (=) Cirsium segetum Bunge
  
• (=) Cirsium setosum (Willd.) Besser ex M. Bieb.
  
• (=) Cnicus arvensis (L.) Roth
  
• (=) Serratula arvensis L.
  
• (=) Serratula setosa Willd.
  

Check other web resources for Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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