Group: Spermatophytina (Spermatophytes)
Family: Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Genus: Carduus (Plumeless Thistle)
Carduus nutans L. - Musk Thistle
Carduus acanthoides L. - Spiny Plumeless Thistle
Carduus crispus L. - Welted Thistle
Carduus personata (L.) Jacq. - Great Marsh Thistle
Carduus defloratus L. - Alpine Thistle
Carduus pycnocephalus L. - Plymouth Thistle
20–200 cm tall, thistle-like, <i>without</i> latex. <span class="v1">inflorescence:</span> capitula (with involucres), in a spike-like to panicle-like whole-inflorescence, <b>capitula mostly in neared clusters</b>, <ba><b>mostly 2–4 capitula per clu...
The colours represent the floristic status of the species in the respective region. Green indicates native occurrences, light green naturalized occurrences. Adventive occurrences are represented by light yellow shades and plants that are cultivated (but rarely occur in the wild) are dark yellow. Grey colours are used, if the floristic status of species is unknown or uncertain.
perennial herbaceous vegetation, forests, shrubbery, grassland & dwarf shrub heaths, ruderal vegetation