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Carthamus leucocaulos
Also called Glaucous Star Thistle, Yellow Distaff Thistle, White Stem Distaff Thistle
Carthamus leucocaulos, the whitestem distaff thistle or glaucous starthistle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Turkey, Greece, and the Aegean. It is known in California and Western Australia as an introduced species and a noxious weed.
Woolly Distaff Thistle · Glaucous Star Thistle · Woolly distaff thistle · Safflower · Distaff thistle · Distaff Thistle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carthamus leucocaulos by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
