Taxon: Onopordum tauricum Willd.

• 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*, CO*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bull cotton thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• 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
  
• Taurian thistle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• taurische Eselsdistel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• cardo-da-Tauria   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Syria; Turkey
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia

• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: France
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Germany

• also cultivated

References:

• 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.
• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• 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.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Onopordum tauricum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Onopordum tauricum.

Check other web resources for Onopordum tauricum Willd.:

• 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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

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