Taxon: Sonchus asper (L.) Hill

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

Common names:

• prickly sow thistle   (Source: WorldWeeds 801. 1997) – English
  
• rough milk thistle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rough sow thistle   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• spiny sow thistle   (Source: WorldWeeds 801. 1997) – English
  
• spiny-leaf sow thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• laiteron rude   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• raue Gänsedistel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• serralha-comum   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• svinmolke   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 800-801. 1997)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; 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
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Federal District, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Puebla, Queretaro
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Panama - Chiriqui
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• exact native range obscure

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Sonchus oleraceus var. asper L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Sonchus asper (L.) Hill:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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