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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carthamus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 830. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 361. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Distaff thistle
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Carthamus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carthamus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Arabic qartam, safflower
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 52, 67, 83
|treatment_page=page 178
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 30–180 cm, herbage glabrous to ± glandular and/or ± tomentose. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, branched distally or throughout, (leafy). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline or all cauline; basal and proximal cauline winged-petiolate, distal cauline sessile, sometimes clasping; blade margins dentate to pinnately lobed, ± spiny, faces glabrous or ± glandlar and/or ± tomentose. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne singly or in few-headed cymiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ovoid, constricted distally. <b>Phyllaries</b> many in 4–5 series, linear to ovate (at least outer ± leaflike), bases appressed, apical appendages more herbaceous, prominently veiny, spiny-dentate or -lobed, spine-tipped. <b>Receptacles</b> convex to conic, epaleate, bearing subulate scales. <b>Florets</b> 15–60+; corollas yellow to red or ± purple, tubes very slender, throats gradually or abruptly expanded, ± cylindric or short-campanulate, lobes linear; anther bases short-tailed, apical appendages oblong; style branches: fused portions with slightly swollen basal nodes minutely hairy, distally minutely papillate, distinct portions very short. <b>Cypselae</b> oblong to obpyramidal, ± 4-angled, apices with smooth or dentate rims, faces usually ± roughened (outer) or smooth (inner), glabrous, attachment scars lateral; pappi 0 or (usually only inner cypselae) ± persistent, of many, usually unequal, narrow scales overlapping in several series. <b>x</b> = 10, 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mediterranean region.
|discussion=<p>Species 14 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas pink or pale purple; cauline leaves ± deeply lobed
|[[Carthamus leucocaulos|Carthamus leucocaulos]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas yellow to red; cauline leaves toothed to deeply lobed
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Cauline leaves toothed, otherwise undivided, weakly spiny; corollas yellow to red; cypselae white
|[[Carthamus tinctorius|Carthamus tinctorius]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Cauline leaves ± divided, very spiny; corollas yellow; cypselae brown
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Anthers yellow, pollen yellow; corollas bright yellow; outer phyllaries usually not more than 1.5 times as long as inner; herbage ± cobwebby; stems stramineous.
|[[Carthamus lanatus|Carthamus lanatus]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Anthers white with purple lines, pollen white; corollas pale yellow; outer phyllaries usually 2 times as long as inner; herbage ± sparsely hairy; stems white or stramineous
|[[Carthamus creticus|Carthamus creticus]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carthamus
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=United States;Mediterranean region.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_200.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Carthamus
}}<!--

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