Taxon: Onopordum tauricum Willd.

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*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Scotch thistle   (Source: State Noxweed Seed [but this adjective is best avoided, may cause offence in Scotland]) – English
  
• Scottish thistle   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• cardo-da-Tauria   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3; Zander ed13)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Turkey
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Greece [incl. Crete]; Romania

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• 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)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Onopordum tauricum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Onopordum tauricum.

Check other databases for Onopordum tauricum Willd.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• 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 databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401780 (09 September 2010)

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