Carduus acanthoides L.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Carduus acanthoides L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 821 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Spiny plumeless thistle

English name: plumeless thistle

English name: welted thistle

French name: chardon épineux

Italian name: Cardo branca-orsina

German name: Weg-Distel

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Carduus
Species:

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Carduus acanthoides
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, località Santa Croce, ai margini di uno slargo alle spalle del cimitero. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carduus acanthoides
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Carduus acanthoides
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Monte Valerio, Campus Universitario., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carduus acanthoides
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Carduus acanthoides
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tarvisio, lungo la strada che conduce alla località Coccau., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carduus acanthoides
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Carduus acanthoides
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Carduus acanthoides
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Carduus acanthoides
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Carduus acanthoides
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Carduus acanthoides
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Carduus acanthoides
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Carduus acanthoides
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Carduus acanthoides
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, IL, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SD, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (BC, NB, NS, ON, QC)

Distributional map for Carduus acanthoides L.
Map for Carduus acanthoides L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Carduus altissimus L. [163]
2) Carduus americanus (A. Gray) Rydb. [143]
3) Carduus araneosus Osterh. [164]
4) Carduus austrinus Small [141]
5) Carduus crispus L. [878]
6) Carduus lecontei (Torr. & A. Gray) Pollard [192]
7) Carduus marianus L. [242]
8) Carduus nutans L. ssp. macrocephalus (Desf.) Nyman [412]
9) Carduus pycnocephalus L. [2217]
10) Carduus virginianus L. [135]

27-Apr-2024 - Week-17