Erect annual thistly herb ; up to 60 cm (or more) high . Stems rather sparsely branched , sparsely arachnoid-hairy . Leaves spinose , pinnatifid with spine-terminated lobes . Inflorescences solitary or by a few at the end of the branches , the lateral sessile or subsessile , subtended and surrounded by reduced spiny leaves . Flowers purple , tubular , perfect . Fruit achenes , broadly obovoid , slightly compress , glabrous , dark brown . Seeds pappus , 12–15 mm long , caducuous as a unit , of flat white , plumose bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Carduus syriacus L.
Cirsium syriacum (L.) Gaertn.
Cnicus syriacus (L.) Roth
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Horse Thistle
Syrian Thistle
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.washcoll.edu *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437.*POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
