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Carduus nutans is a biennial plant in the daisy and sunflower family Asteraceae with the common names musk thistle, [1] nodding thistle, and nodding plumeless thistle.It is native to regions of Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa, where it is a scattered pasture plant.
Carduus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and the tribe Cardueae, one of two genera considered to be true thistles, the other being Cirsium. [2] Plants of the genus are known commonly as plumeless thistles .
Carduus nutans; P. Carduus personata; Carduus pycnocephalus; T. Carduus tenuiflorus This page was last edited on 11 May 2023, at 16:16 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Christian Friedrich Lessing published Cynareae in 1830, but Henri Cassini had already published Cardueae in 1819, and as Lessing included Carduus in Cynareae, his name was superfluous. [4] [2] Some authors have divided the plants traditionally held to be in this tribe into three tribes: Cynareae in the narrow sense, Carlineae, and Echinopeae.
Carduus acanthoides: spiny plumeless thistle Carduus nutans [1] musk thistle Centaurea solstitialis: yellow star-thistle Cuscuta californica: chaparral dodder Cirsium vulgare [1] spear thistle Hedypnois cretica: cretanweed Eragrostis cilianensis: stinkgrass Kali tragus: prickly Russian thistle Puccinellia distans: weeping alkaligrass Rubus ...
Carduus is the Latin term for a thistle (hence cardoon, chardon in French), and Cardonnacum is a Late Latin word for a place with thistles. This is believed to be the origin of name of the Burgundy village of Chardonnay, Saône-et-Loire , which in turn is thought to be the home of the famous Chardonnay grape variety.
The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about 1,900 acres (7.7 km 2) of land in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA. [1] [2] [3] Much of the area of Soldiers Delight contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.
Rhaponticum carthamoides, synonym Leuzea carthamoides, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. [1] It is known as maral root or rhaponticum. [2] It inhabits the sub-alpine zone (4,500–6,000 ft (1,400–1,800 m) above sea level) as well as alpine meadows.