Sonchus L.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Angola, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Central European Russia, Chad, Chatham Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Desventurados Is., Djibouti, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Free State, Føroyar, Gabon, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kermadec Is., Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nigeria, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Senegal, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, California, Caroline Is., Chile Central, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Fiji, Florida, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Line Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Marcus I., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Southeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Namibia, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Territory, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Rodrigues, Réunion, Saskatchewan, Society Is., South Carolina, South China Sea, South Dakota, South Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Utah, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vermont, Virginia, Wake I., Washington, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
• Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora of Iraq

• Boulos, L. 126: 155–196 (1973)
• Boulos, L. 127: 7–37 & 402–451 (1974).
• Boulos, L. Revision systematique du genre Sonchus L. s.l., 1–6. Bot. Not. 125: 287–319 (1972)
• C. C. Townsend (2019). Flora of Iraq, Volume 6: Compositae. Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. & Hind, D. J. N. (Eds). Kew Publishing
• L. Sp. Pl.: 793 (1753)
• L., Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 347 (1754)

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 3: 457.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Boulos in Bot. Not.125: 287–319 (1972)
• C. Jeffrey in Kew Bull. 18: 478–482 (1966).
• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 347 (1754).
• Sp. Pl. 2: 793 (1753)
• in Bot. Not. 126: 155–196 (1973)
• in Bot. Not. 127: 7–37, 402–451 (1974).

Flora of Somalia

• Boulos in Bot. Not. 125: 287–305 (1972).
• Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Boulos, Bot. Notis. 125: 293 (1972)
• C. Jeffrey in K.B. 18: 478 (1966)
• K.Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 189 (1994)
• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 347 (1754)
• R.E. Fr. in Acta Horti Berg. 8:92 (1924)
• Sp. Pl.: 793 (1753)