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Cirsium vulgare
(Asteraceae)
Scotch thistle, black thistle, bull thistle, plume thistle, spear thistle

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Species description or overview

Cirsium vulgare information from PIER
Information on Cirsium vulgare as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Cirsium vulgare
Nomenclatural information about Cirsium vulgare is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

ITIS nomenclature info for Cirsium vulgare
Nomenclatural information about Cirsium vulgare is provided by ITIS.

IPNI nomenclature info for Cirsium vulgare
Nomenclatural information about Cirsium vulgare is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Cirsium vulgare (Asteraceae): species information from GCW
Information on Cirsium vulgare as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Images

Images of Cirsium vulgare (Asteraceae) (bull thistle, pua kala)
Links to high-resolution free images of Cirsium vulgare (Asteraceae) (bull thistle, pua kala) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Cirsium vulgare
Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (Wagner, W. L., D. R. Herbst, and D. H. Lorence. 2005-. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website. http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm [accessed Apr 2006])

Cirsium vulgare images from PIER
Images of Cirsium vulgare provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Distribution

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Cirsium vulgare
Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (Wagner, W. L., D. R. Herbst, and D. H. Lorence. 2005-. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website. http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm [accessed Apr 2006])

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.

Bibliography

References for Cirsium vulgare  new posting 
Bibliographic references for Cirsium vulgare are provided by HEAR.

Other resources

Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle) as an invasive species (information from TNC)
Information about Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle) as an invasive species is provided by The Nature Conservancy.

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