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Cynara cardunculus (artichoke thistle)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Cynara cardunculus cardunculus
Cynara cardunculus flavescens
Cynara cardunculus zingaroensis

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]

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
♦ 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 Yagueddú. 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