Taxon: Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo

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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:

AK(as Acroptilon repens)*°, AZ(as Acroptilon repens)*°, CA(as Acroptilon repens)*, CA(as Centaurea repens)°, CO(as Acroptilon repens)*°, CO(as Centaurea repens)°, CT(as Centaurea repens)°, GA(as Acroptilon repens)°, HI(as Acroptilon repens)*°, IA(as Centaurea repens)*°, ID(as Acroptilon repens)°, ID(as Centaurea repens)*°, IL(as Centaurea picris)°, IN(as Centaurea repens)°, KS(as Centaurea picris)*, KS(as Centaurea repens)°, LA(as Centaurea repens)°, MI(as Centaurea picris)*°, MN(as Centaurea repens)°, MT(as Centaurea repens)*°, ND(as Acroptilon repens)*, ND(as Centaurea picris)°, NE(as Centaurea repens)°, NM(as Acroptilon repens)*, NM(as Centaurea repens)°, NV(as Acroptilon repens)*, NV(as Centaurea repens)°, NY(as Centaurea repens)°, OH(as Acroptilon repens)°, OH(as Centaurea picris)°, OK(as Centaurea picris)*°, OR(as Acroptilon repens)*°, SC(as Centaurea picris)°, SD(as Centaurea repens)*°, TX(as Centaurea repens)°, UT(as Centaurea repens)*°, WA(as Acroptilon repens)*, WA(as Centaurea repens)°, WY(as Acroptilon repens)°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

Common names:

• blueweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust [as Acroptilon repens]) – English
  
• creeping-knapweed   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• hardheads   (Source: Noxweed Aust [as Acroptilon repens]) – English
  
• mountain-bluet   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Russian centaurea   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Russian-knapweed   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Turkestan thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• centaurée de Russie   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Federblume   (Source: Zander ed17 [as Acroptilon repens]) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Poison Pl Proc, as Centaurea repens)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust, as Acroptilon repens; Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 89:296. 1986, as Acroptilon repens)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Rhaponticum repens from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi [n.], Shanxi [n.], Xinjiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Greece

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Germany
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio
  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 - Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, 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
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Poland; Slovakia
  East Europe: Latvia; Lithuania
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. [= Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hidalgo, O. et al. 2006. Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae-Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 97:705–714.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. [= Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.].
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rhaponticum repens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rhaponticum repens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rhaponticum repens.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.
  
• (=) Centaurea picris Pall. ex Willd.
  
• (≡) Centaurea repens L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• 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
• 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.

Images:

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

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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