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Carduus nutans (Musk Thistle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Carduus nutans, with the common names musk thistle, nodding thistle, and nodding plumeless thistle, is a biennial herb in the Asteraceae—sunflower family. It is native to regions of Europe and Asia.
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Infraspecies

Carduus nutans alpicola
Carduus nutans falcatoincurvus
Carduus nutans leio
Carduus nutans leiophyllus (Attributes)
Carduus nutans micropterus
Carduus nutans nutans
Carduus nutans perspinosus
Carduus nutans platylepis
Carduus nutans siculus
Carduus nutans taygeteus
Carduus nutans trojanus
Carduus nutans unranked
Carduus nutans var. cossonianus
Carduus nutans var. sporadum

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[1]
Microbotryum cardui[1]
Puccinia calcitrapae[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
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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