Taxon: Scolymus hispanicus L.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• golden thistle   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• Spanish oysterplant   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• Spanish salsify   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sunnariah   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English (Australia)
  
• épine jaune   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• carduille   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• scolyme d'Espagne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Goldwurzel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• spanische Golddistel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• cardo scolimo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• cardo-dourado   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cardo-dourado-espanhol   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cardillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• tagarnina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• spansk taggfibbla   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: adulterant   (of saffron fide Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Cornucopia; Pl Book)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran [n.w.]; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Krasnodar [w.]
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Libya
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Victoria
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New York, Pennsylvania
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Poland; Switzerland

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Scolymus hispanicus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Scolymus hispanicus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Scolymus hispanicus.

Check other web resources for Scolymus hispanicus 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
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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

Ctrl P to print