Index / Search / Onopordum acanthium
§1 Plant
Onopordum acanthium L.
vernacular Scotch cottonthistle — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Onopordum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 124 counties across 25 states/territories§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 124 counties across 25 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 9 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ONAC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3094900 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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