Carthamus tinctorius L.

Carthamus tinctorius L.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Carthamus tinctorius L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 830 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Safflower

English name: dyer's-saffron

English name: false saffron

Spanish name: cártamo

French name: safre

Italian name: Zafferanone coltivato

German name: Saflor

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 2859 ( AVG: 223.1 / 292.279 )

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Carthamus tinctorius
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - 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".

Carthamus tinctorius
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Carthamus tinctorius
Credit: Photo by Mirna and Attilio Marzorati

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

Carthamus tinctorius
Credit: Photo by Mirna and Attilio Marzorati

Carthamus tinctorius
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Orto Botanico., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carthamus tinctorius
Credit: Photo by Mirna and Attilio Marzorati

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CA, CO, IA, ID, IL, KS, MA, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC)

Distributional map for Carthamus tinctorius L.
Map for Carthamus tinctorius 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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3) Carum copticum (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke [91]
4) Carum montanum Blank. [99]
5) Carum velenovskyi Rohlena [89]
6) Carya brownii Sarg. var. varians Sarg. [151]
7) Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet [1021]
8) Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch [1119]
9) Carya ovalis (Wangenh.) Sarg. var. obovalis Sarg. [134]
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