Onopordum acanthium

TaxID: 92915

Basic Information

Onopordum acanthium

Cotton Thistle

Onopordum acanthium (cotton thistle, Scotch (or Scottish) thistle) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Western Asia from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan, and north to central Scandinavia, and widely naturalised elsewhere, with especially large populations present in the United States and Australia. It is a vigorous biennial plant with coarse, spiny leaves and conspicuous spiny-winged stems. It should not be confused with Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle), which is also known as Scotch or Scottish thistle and is the national flower of Scotland. Spear thistle is native to Britain, while cotton thistle is non-native.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asterales

Asteraceae

Onopordum

acanthium

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Onopordum acanthium
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(c) Lane@BY-NC
Onopordum acanthium
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(c) James Bailey@BY-NC
Onopordum acanthium
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(c) unknown@CC0
Onopordum acanthium
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(c) redhat@BY-NC
Onopordum acanthium
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(c) Charlotte Jones@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Peru Absent —

Distribution (63 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (27 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
YNPBP313-21 - trnL-F 476 United States - -
YNPBP313-21 - rbcL 553 United States - -
POWNA503-10 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 1974-07-05 51.526653, -3.161783
POWNA503-10 - matK 957 United Kingdom 1974-07-05 51.526653, -3.161783
POWNA2904-12 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 1932-07-12 -
POWNA2904-12 - matK 901 United Kingdom 1932-07-12 -
POWNA2904-12 - ITS2 454 United Kingdom 1932-07-12 -
POWNA2903-12 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 1985-08-15 -
POWNA2903-12 - matK 941 United Kingdom 1985-08-15 -
POWNA2903-12 - ITS2 454 United Kingdom 1985-08-15 -
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Literature