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Taxon: Carduus acanthoides L.

Genus: Carduus
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 104108
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:821. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 25-May-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-May-2007
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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:
AZ*°, CA*°, CO*°, MI*°, MN*°, NC*, NE*°, OR*, SD*°, WA*, WY*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • plumeless thistle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • welted thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • chardon épineux   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  • cardo-chileno   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • cardo-espinhoso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • cardo-pratense   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Turkey
    Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized in New Zealand, United States, Canada, & s. South America

References:

  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Desrochers, A. M. et al. 1988. The biology of Canadian weeds. 89. Carduus nutans L. and Carduus acanthoides L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 68:1053–1068.
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Frick, K. E. 1978. USDA-Agr. no. 101.
  • 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)
  • Kazmi, S. M. A. 1964. Revision der Gattung Carduus (Compositae). Teil I. Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 5:279–550.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
  • 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)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
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Check other databases for Carduus acanthoides L.:

  • 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
  • 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:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?104108 (09 February 2010)

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