DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Artichoke Thistle (Cynara cardunculus) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Cynara cardunculus L. |  Artichoke Thistle Plant |
Common name: | Artichoke thistle, Spanish artichoke | |
Status: | Regionally Prohibited weed in the Goulburn Broken, North East and West Gippsland CMAs. Regionally Controlled weed in the Mallee, North Central, Corangamite and Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West) CMAs. Restricted in the Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins and East Gippsland CMAs. | |
Habitat: | Warm temperate regions with a dominant winter rainfall in the 500 to 750 mm of annual rainfall belt, and preferring black basalt soils in Victoria (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Artichoke thistle is an important weed of poorer pastures, occasionally lucerne and crops, and once established usually dominates the vegetation of an area (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It is also invades lowland grassland and grassy woodland, and riparian vegetation (Carr et al 1992). |
 Artichoke Thistle with mature seed heads. |  Artichoke Thistle Flower |
Related Links
Further information on the Artichoke Thistle can be found on the DPI Website, Pest Plant Notes
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This document was last reviewed on 04/09/2008