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§1 Plant

Carduus nutans L.

vernacular nodding plumeless thistle — species · Asteraceae


USDA
CANU4
GBIF
8185959
Rank
species
nodding plumeless thistle (Carduus nutans)
Platephotograph · Veronika A. JohanssonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Carduus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 185 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 185 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 185 counties across 15 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 11 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 34 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 I
Montana view state ↗ 27 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 I
New York view state ↗ 12 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 19 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I
Virginia view state ↗ 51 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CANU4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/8185959 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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