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Taxon: Carduus nutans L.

Genus: Carduus
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 104109
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:
CA*°, CO*°, ID*°, IL*, KS*°, MI*°, MN*°, MO*°, NC*, ND*°, NE*°, NM*, NV*, OH*°, OK*°, OR*°, PA*, SD*°, UT*°, WA*, WV*, WY*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System
Link to species profile at National Invasive Species Information Center

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • musk thistle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • nodding thistle   (Source: Can J Pl Sci 68:1053) – English
  • chardon penché   (Source: Can J Pl Sci 68:1053) – French
  • cardo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • cardo-pendente   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
    China: China - Xinjiang
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Switzerland
    East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part
    Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Italy [incl. Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Desrochers, A. M. et al. 1988. A biosystematic study of the Carduus nutans complex in Canada. Canad. J. Bot. 66:1621–1631.
  • 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.
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • 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)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Carduus nutans 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
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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:

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  • 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?104109 (09 February 2010)

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