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Thistles and Burdocks
Carduinae
33 branches of this group, most-observed first

Plume Thistles
genusCirsium

burdocks
genusArctium

plumeless thistles
genusCarduus

Silybum
genusSilybum

cotton thistles
genusOnopordum

Cynara
genusCynara

Galactites
genusGalactites

Lophiolepis
genusLophiolepis
Xeranthemum
genusXeranthemum

Ptilostemon
genusPtilostemon

Picnomon
genusPicnomon

Staehelina
genusStaehelina

Notobasis
genusNotobasis

Tyrimnus
genusTyrimnus

Synurus
genusSynurus

Alfredia
genusAlfredia

Berardia
genusBerardia

Afrocarduus
genusAfrocarduus

Lamyropsis
genusLamyropsis

Ancathia
genusAncathia

Chardinia
genusChardinia

Olgaea
genusOlgaea

Siebera
genusSiebera

Shangwua
genusShangwua

Amphoricarpos
genusAmphoricarpos

Xanthopappus
genusXanthopappus

Hirtellina
genusHirtellina

Syreitschikovia
genusSyreitschikovia

Afrocirsium
genusAfrocirsium

Dipterocome
genusDipterocome
Lamyropappus
genusLamyropappus
Anacantha
genusAnacantha
Nuriaea
genusNuriaea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 632885.