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The genus Carduus is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Carduus

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Carduus × abruzzensis Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus acanthocephalus C.A.Mey.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus acanthoides L.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus acicularis Bertol.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus adpressus C.A.Mey.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus affinis Guss.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus afromontanus R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus albescens Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Carduus amanus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus arabicus Jacq.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × aragonensis Devesa & Talavera	Accepted		TICA
Carduus argentatus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus argyroa Biv.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus asturicus Franco	Accepted		TICA
Carduus aurosicus Vill.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus baeocephalus Webb	Accepted		TICA
Carduus bourgaei Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus brunneri Döll	Accepted		TICA
Carduus budaianus Jáv.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus calabricus Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus camplonensis Devesa & Talavera	Accepted		TICA
Carduus candicans Waldst. & Kit.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus cantabricus Devesa & Talavera	Accepted		TICA
Carduus carduelis (L.) Gren.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus carlinoides Gouan	Accepted		TICA
Carduus carpetanus Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus cephalanthus Viv.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus chevallieri Barratte ex L.Chevall.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus chrysacanthus Ten.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus clavulatus Link	Accepted		TICA
Carduus collinus Waldst. & Kit.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus conjungens R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus conrathii Hayek	Accepted		TICA
Carduus corymbosus Ten.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus crispus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × cyrneus Schlüssel & Jeanm.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus dahuricus (Arènes) Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus defloratus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus dubius Balb.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus edelbergii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus estivali Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus euboicus Franco	Accepted		TICA
Carduus fallax Borbás	Accepted		TICA
Carduus fasciculiflorus Viv.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus getulus Pomel	Accepted		TICA
Carduus gibsonii	Accepted		TICA
Carduus gilloti Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × gillottii	Accepted		TICA
Carduus grassensis Briq. & Cavill.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus grenieri Sch.Bip. ex Nyman	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × halanensis Degen & Lengyel	Accepted		TICA
Carduus hamulosus Ehrh.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × heteromorphus Sennholz	Accepted		TICA
Carduus hohenackeri Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus ibicensis (Devesa & Talavera) Rosselló & N.Torres	Accepted		TICA
Carduus intercedens Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus jordanii Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus juratzkae Beck	Accepted		TICA
Carduus keniensis R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus kerneri Simonk.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus kirghisicus Sultanova	Accepted		TICA
Carduus kumaunensis (Arènes) Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus lanuginosus Willd.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus leptacanthus Fresen.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus leptocephalus Peterm.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus leptocladus Durieu	Accepted		TICA
Carduus leridanus Devesa & Talavera	Accepted		TICA
Carduus lesurinus Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Carduus litigiosus Nocca & Balb.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × littoralis Borbás	Accepted		TICA
Carduus loreti Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Carduus lusitanicus Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Carduus macracanthus Sch.Bip. ex Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus majellensis "Huter, Porta & Rigo"	Accepted		TICA
Carduus malyi Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carduus maritimum Elmer	Accepted		TICA
Carduus martinezii Pau	Accepted		TICA
Carduus meonanthus Hoffmanns. & Link	Accepted		TICA
Carduus meratii Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus merxmuelleri Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus millefolius R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus mixtus	Accepted		TICA
Carduus modestii Tamamsch.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × moritzii Brügger	Accepted		TICA
Carduus myriacanthus Salzm. ex DC.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus naegelii Brügger	Accepted		TICA
Carduus nawaschinii Bordz.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus nervosus K.Koch	Accepted		TICA
Carduus nigrescens Vill.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus nutans L.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × nyaradyanus Degen ex Nyár.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus nyassanus (S.Moore) R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus occidentalis Nutt.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus olympicus Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus onopordioides Fisch. ex M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus onopyxos Hill	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × orthocephalus Wallr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus pancicii Sch.Bip. ex Nyman	Accepted		TICA
Carduus peisonis Teyber	Accepted		TICA
Carduus personata (L.) Jacq.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus poliochrus Trautv.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × pseudohamulosus Beck	Accepted		TICA
Carduus puechii Coste	Accepted		TICA
Carduus pycnocephalus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus ramosissimus Pančić	Accepted		TICA
Carduus rechingerianus Kazmi	Accepted		TICA
Carduus rivasgodayanus Devesa & Talavera	Accepted		TICA
Carduus ruwenzoriensis S.Moore	Accepted		TICA
Carduus schimperi Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus schulzeanus Ruhmer	Accepted		TICA
Carduus seminudus M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × semiperegrinus Aellen	Accepted		TICA
Carduus sepincolus Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus septentrionalis Devesa & Talavera	Accepted		TICA
Carduus silvarum R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus solteszii Budai	Accepted		TICA
Carduus spachianus Durieu	Accepted		TICA
Carduus squarrosus (DC.) DC. ex Lowe	Accepted		TICA
Carduus tenuiflorus Curtis	Accepted		TICA
Carduus thoermeri Weinm.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus tmoleus Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus transcaspicus Gand.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus turocensis Margittai	Accepted		TICA
Carduus uncinatus M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × vaillantii Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus × verlotii Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Carduus weizensis Hayek	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 929 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Carduus. Of these 127 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 236 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Carduus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 929 species names for the genus Carduus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	127	13.7%
◕	Synonym	654	70.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	148	15.9%

All names

The status of the 1,165 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Carduus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	169	14.5%
◕	Synonym	836	71.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	160	13.7%

Of these names,

• 18 are recorded as invalid
• 28 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 929 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Carduus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	123	564	0	0	687	74.0%
	Low confidence	4	90	0	148	242	26.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Carduus, are as follows: