Taxon: Carthamus lanatus L.

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*°, OR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus (no accessions)
• Carthamus lanatus subsp. lanatus (no accessions)
• Carthamus lanatus subsp. turkestanicus (4 accessions)

Common names:

• distaff thistle   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• downy safflower   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• saffron thistle   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• smooth distaff thistle   (Source: State Noxweed Seed [as C. baeticus]) – English   [Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus]
  
• woolly distaff thistle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Carthamus lanatus subsp. lanatus]
  
• woolly distaff thistle   (Source: NPB State Noxweed CA [http://nationalplantboard.org/docs/summaries/california.pdf]) – English
  
• woolly safflower   (Source: Noxweed Aust CA) – English
  
• woolly star thistle   (Source: Noxweed Aust CA) – English
  
• woolly thistle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names CA) – English
  
• yellow star thistle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names CA) – English
  
• wolliger Saflor   (Source: Zander Ency CA) – German
  
• cardo-da-cruz   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cardo-do-diabo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cardo-lanudo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• luddsafflor   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Western Cape
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway
  Middle Europe: Slovakia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts, New Jersey
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Poland
  East Europe: Latvia

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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• 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.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P. 1963. Monographische Übersicht der Gattung Carthamus L. (Compositae). Feddes Repert. 67:135–143.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• 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.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carthamus lanatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carthamus lanatus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carthamus lanatus.

Synonyms:

• Carthamus baeticus (Boiss. & Reut.) Pérez Lara [= Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus]
  
• Carthamus creticus L. [= Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus]
  
• Carthamus lanatus subsp. creticus (L.) Holmboe [= Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus]
  
• Carthamus turkestanicus Popov [= Carthamus lanatus subsp. turkestanicus]
  
• Kentrophyllum baeticum Boiss. & Reut. [≡ Carthamus lanatus subsp. baeticus]
  

Check other web resources for Carthamus lanatus 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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