Taxon: Carthamus leucocaulos Sm.

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*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• glaucous star thistle   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• white-stem distaff thistle   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• yellow distaff thistle   (Source: Rep NCEPPC ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece [incl. Aegian Islands, Crete]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - South Australia [s.e.], Victoria [w.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Belgium
  Southwestern Europe: France

References:

• Australia's Virtual Herbarium (on-line resource).
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• 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.
• Hanelt, P. 1963. Monographische Übersicht der Gattung Carthamus L. (Compositae). Feddes Repert. 67:124–127.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• 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).
• 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 Carthamus leucocaulos.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carthamus leucocaulos.

Check other web resources for Carthamus leucocaulos Sm.:

• 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
• 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

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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