Taxon: Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.

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:

• California thistle   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• Canada thistle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – 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
  
• cardo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cardo-canadense   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: also 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
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  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, Zhejiang; Hong Kong
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United States (including Hawaii), Canada, Mexico, s. South America, Azores, & Mascarenes

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• 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. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. (L Pak)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cirsium arvense.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cirsium arvense. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) 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 databases 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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