Taxon: Carthamus lanatus L. subsp. lanatus

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Carthamus lanatus (10 accessions)
• Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus (no accessions)
• Carthamus lanatus subsp. turkestanicus (4 accessions)

Common names:

• woolly distaff thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide F NAmer)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Western Cape
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway
  Middle Europe: Slovakia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts, New Jersey
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Poland
  East Europe: Latvia

References:

• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.

Check other web resources for Carthamus lanatus L. subsp. lanatus:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Check other databases for 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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