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Sonchus tenerrimus (slender sowthistle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sonchus tenerrimus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name slender sowthistle. It is native to the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. It has been found as well in several other locations around the world, historically in association with ship ballast in coastal regions. It has become naturalized in a few places, such as California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Sonchus tenerrimus amicus
Sonchus tenerrimus dianae
Sonchus tenerrimus halodianae
Sonchus tenerrimus polypodioides
Sonchus tenerrimus tenerrimus

Attributes

Dispersal Mode [2]  Anemochory
Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  31 inches (0.8 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy

Predators

Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale)[4]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[5]
Bombus terrestris (Large Earth Humble-bee)[5]
Oxythyrea funesta[5]
Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0