DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Slender/Shore Thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution - Slender Thistle | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Carduus pycnocephalus L. |  Shore Thistles |
Common Name: | Slender thistle, Shore thistle, Winged thistle, Italian Thistle | |
Status: | Regionally Controlled in the Port Phillip & Westernport (West and East), North East, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite and Goulburn Broken CMAs. | |
Habitat: | Subhumid warm-temperate regions having winter dominant rainfall on soils of moderate to high fertility (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It is a weed of improved pastures and neglected areas, establishing readily on disturbed sites in areas with annual rainfall above 500 mm (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Slender thistle invades dry coastal vegetation, mallee shrubland, lowland grassland and grassy woodland, dry sclerophyll forest and woodland and rock outcrop vegetation (Carr et al 1992). |
 Shore Thistle flowers |  Shore Thistle flower in detail |
 Shore Thistle Stems |
Related Links Further information on Slender thistle suppression with the slender thistle rust fungus can be found on the DPI Website, Pest Plant Notes. Weeds Information Note on Slender Thistles - on the DPI website. |
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This document was last reviewed on 24/09/2008