Species profile—Carthamus lanatus (saffron thistle)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Asteraceae (sunflower) → Carthamus lanatus (saffron thistle)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Asteraceae (sunflower)
- Scientific name
- Carthamus lanatus L.
- Common name
- saffron thistle
- WildNet taxon ID
- 14781
- Alternate name(s)
- distaff thistle
yellow star thistle
woolly thistle
woolly star thistle
woolly safflower
false star thistle - Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=14781.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
