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Alternate name

Artichoke; desert artichoke; cardoon; european cardoon; globe artichoke; scotch thistle; scottish thistle; spanish artichoke; wild artichoke; wild cardoon spanish: alcachofa; alcaucil; cardo; cardo de comer french: artichaut commun; carde; cardon d’espagne russian: artišok ispanskij arabic: al harshuff england and wales: march-ysgall finland: isoartisokka germany: artishocke; gemüseartishocke; gemüse-artishocke; kardone italy: carciofo netherlands: kardoen portugal: alcachofra; cardo spain: card; card comestible; card comú; herbacol sweden: kardon

Family

Asteraceae or compositae

Height

2.0

Introduced into

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, California, Colombia, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Ecuador, Ethiopia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Marianas, Mauritius, Myanmar, Netherlands, New South Wales, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Queensland, Romania, Réunion, Sardegna, South Australia, South European Russi, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia

Life cycle

Perennial

Plants for a future

https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Cynara cardunculus

Plants of the world online

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:200876-1

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardoon