Family:
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Genus:
Carthamus L.

Carthamus creticus L.

This species is accepted, and its native range is Europe to Turkey, NW. Africa.

Native to:

Algeria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Great Britain, Greece, Kriti, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

British Columbia, California, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina

Carthamus creticus L. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Sp. Pl. ed. 2: 1163 (1763)

Accepted by

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0