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Cynara cardunculus (artichoke thistle)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Cynara cardunculus

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The plant is said to yield a good yellow dye[4], though the report does not say which part of the plant is used.
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
Width [1]  39 inches (1 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Cynara cardunculus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Comprensorio Tolfetano-Cerite-Manziate 166977 Italy  
Essex Estuaries 114016 England, United Kingdom
Reserva Natural Otamendi Strict Nature Reserve Ia   Buenos Aires, Argentina  
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom
Valle Basento Grassano Scalo - Grottole 1925 Italy  

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Leveillula taurica[3]
Pollinator of 
Anoxia australis[3]
Bombus terrestris (Large Earth Humble-bee)[3]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3Jorrit 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.
4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
7Comparatore, Viviana, and Cristina YagueddĂș. Diet of the Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) in an agroecosystem of the Flooding Pampa, Argentina. Ornitologia Neotropical 18.2 (2007): 187-194.
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