Onopordum acanthium
Common names
cotton thistle
Biostatus
Exotic
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Herbs - Dicotyledonous composites
Flower colours
Red/Pink, Violet/Purple
Similar taxa
Leaves grey-green, covered with dense, white, felted tomentum; involucral bracts green, linnear-subulate, 2-3 mm wide at base, with dense felted tomentum; corolla 20-24 mm long.
Conservation status
Not applicable
Detailed taxonomy
Family
Ecology
Year naturalised
1880
Origin
Europe, W. and C. Asia
Other information
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
ONOACA