Taxon: Onopordum illyricum L.

Genus:

Onopordum

Family:

Asteraceae (alt.Compositae)

Subfamily:

Carduoideae

Tribe:

Cardueae

Subtribe:

Carduinae

Nomen number:

25767

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:827. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

18-Mar-2012 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 21-Mar-2017

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Illyrian thistle (Source: Econ Pl Aust) - English
illyrische Eselsdistel (Source: Zander Ency) - German
cardo-ilírico (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
grenig ulltistel (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Weed: potential seed contaminant ()

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Syria, Turkey

Europe

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)

Naturalized

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria]

Northern America

SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979 (Atlas WWeed)
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 (Econ Pl Aust)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
Mouterde, P. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
Parsa, A. Flore de l'Iran. (F IranPars)
Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious weeds of Australia. 1992 (Noxweed Aust)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
Willis, J. H. A handbook to plants in Victoria. (F VictWillis)

Check other web resources for Onopordum illyricum 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:
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:

Disseminule drawings\; A: Fruit; B: embryo in situ; C: transection of fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=25767. Accessed 24 April 2018.