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|accepted_name=Onopordum tauricum
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=3: 1687. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Taurian thistle;bull cottonthistle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Onopordum;Onopordum tauricum
|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>[[Onopordum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Onopordum tauricum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 87
|treatment_page=page 88
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>50–200 cm, herbage glandular-puberulent, sticky throughout. <b>Stems</b>: wings 0.5–2 cm wide. <b>Leaves</b> 10–30 cm, margins shallowly to deeply 1–2-pinnatifid, with 6–8 pairs of acutely triangular lobes, thinly arachnoid tomentose when young. <b>Heads</b> mostly borne singly at branch tips. <b>Involucres</b> ± spheric, 20–50 mm diam (excluding spines), base truncate to concave. <b>Phyllaries</b> lanceolate, bases 3–4 mm wide, glabrous or glandular-puberulent, sometimes ± cobwebby-tomentose, spines to 4 mm. <b>Corollas</b> purplish pink, 25–30 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 5–6 mm; pappi of many whitish to tan, scabrous or minutely barbed bristles 8–10 mm. <b>2n</b> = 34 (Russia).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer (Jun–Sep).
|habitat=Grasslands, arid woodlands, riparian areas, roadsides, agricultural lands
|elevation=600–2200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;s Europe;sw Asia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Taurian thistle is a noxious weed in California and Colorado. In southeastern Colorado it sometimes grows with <i>Onopordum acanthium</i>. Putative hybrids have been observed in this area.</p>
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name=Onopordum tauricum
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer (Jun–Sep).
|habitat=Grasslands, arid woodlands, riparian areas, roadsides, agricultural lands
|elevation=600–2200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;s Europe;sw Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_38.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Onopordum
|species=Onopordum tauricum
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