Taxon: Dipsacus sativus (L.) Honck.

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Common names:

• card's thistle   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• fuller's teasel   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Indian teasel   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• cardaire à foulons   (Source: R. Verlaque, p.c.) – French
  
• Weber-Karde   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• cardo-de-cardador   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish
  
• vävarkarda   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: teasel   (heads formerly much used in napping cloth fide Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Czechoslovakia; Germany
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia - Cochabamba
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France

• widely cultivated

• origin uncertain, possibly Mediterrean region

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).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jorgensen, P. M., ed. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia (Catalogue of vascular plants of Bolivia) (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. [introd.].
• Kartesz, J. T. 2011. North American plant atlas. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Marzocca, A. 1994. Guia descriptiva de malezas del cono sur. 105. [= D. sativus (L.) Gars.].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Verlaque, R. 2011. Review of Dipsacaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 18 Mar.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dipsacus sativus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dipsacus sativus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dipsacus sativus.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Dipsacus fullonum var. sativus L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Dipsacus sativus (L.) Honck.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• 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:

• Fruiting head: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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