- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Helminthotheca Zinn
Helminthotheca echioides (L.) Holub

Native to:
Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alberta, Arizona, Austria, Belgium, California, Cape Provinces, Chatham Is., Connecticut, Denmark, District of Columbia, Ethiopia, Free State, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iowa, Ireland, KwaZulu-Natal, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Norway, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Queensland, Romania, Saskatchewan, South Australia, Switzerland, Tasmania, Uruguay, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Western Australia, Zimbabwe
- Crepis echioides (L.) All.
- Helminthia dichotoma Dulac
- Helminthia echioides (L.) Gaertn.
- Helminthia echioides var. mollis Duby
- Helminthia humifusa (Willd.) Trevir.
- Helminthia pratensis Chevall.
- Helminthia rigida Schult. ex Steud.
- Helminthia spinosa DC.
- Helminthia tuberculata Moench
- Helminthotheca echioides var. incisa P.D.Sell
- Helminthotheca echioides var. mollis (Duby) P.D.Sell
- Helminthotheca echioides var. pratensis (Chevall.) P.D.Sell
- Hieracium helminthia E.H.L.Krause
- Picris echioides L.
- Picris humifusa Willd.
- Picris ruderalis Salisb.
- Picris spinosa (DC.) Poir.
Helminthotheca echioides (L.) Holub appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Mooney, H.F. [4583], Syria | K000318496 | Yes | |||
Mooney, H.F. [4583], Syria | K000318497 | No | |||
Cope, T.A. [RBG 133], United Kingdom | Picris echioides | K000914413 | Yes |
First published in Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 8: 176 (1973)
Accepted by
- Ghazanfar, S.A., Edmondson, J.R. & Hind, D.J.N. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Iraq 6: 1-458. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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