Carthamus creticus Linnaeus (Q2989)

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Carthamus creticus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Carthamus
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Carthamus creticus Linnaeus
Carthamus creticus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Carthamus

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    taxon/id/Carthamus creticus Linnaeus
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    Carthamus creticus Linnaeus
    Carthamus creticus
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carthame de Crète (French)
    smooth distaff thistle (English)
    distaff thistle (English)
    Smooth distaff thistle (English)
    1 reference
    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    Europe
    Flowering summer (Jun–Aug).
    0–500 m
    Plants 40–100 cm, herbage ± sparsely hairy.
    Stems rigidly erect, openly branched above, stramineous.
    Leaves basal and cauline;
    basal often absent at anthesis, petioles winged, blades pinnately 1–2-divided into linear or lanceolate spine-tipped lobes, cauline spreading or recurved, lanceolate to ovate, rigid, clasping, margins spiny-lobed, spine-tipped.
    Involucres ovoid, 20–25 mm, very thinly cobwebby or becoming glabrous.
    Outer phyllaries ascending or ± spreading, 35–55 mm, usually 2 times as long as inner, terminal appendages spreading to ascending, spiny-lobed, prominently spine-tipped.
    Corollas pale-yellow, 25–35 mm, throats abruptly expanded;
    anthers white with purple stripes;
    Cypselae brown, 4–6 mm, outer roughened;
    pappus-scales 1–10 mm. 2n = 64.