Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Viridiplantae > Infrakingdom Streptophyta > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Asterales > Family Compositae > Tribe Cardueae > Genus Carthamus

Carthamus caeruleus L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Carthamus*	L.	accepted genus name
*Carduncellus*	Adans.	heterotypic synonym
*Carthamoides*	Wolf	heterotypic synonym
*Durandoa*	Pomel	heterotypic synonym
*Femeniasia*	Susanna	heterotypic synonym
*Kentrophyllum*	DC.	heterotypic synonym
*Lamottea*	Pomel	heterotypic synonym
*Phonus*	Hill	heterotypic synonym

Species group names

*Carduncellus caeruleus*	(L.) C. Presl	homotypic synonym
*Kentrophyllum caeruleum*	(L.) Godr. & Gren.	homotypic synonym
*Onobroma caerulea*	(L.) Gaertn.	homotypic synonym
*Carduncellus caeruleus subsp. tingitanus*	(L.) Rivas Goday & Rivas Mart.	heterotypic synonym
*Carduncellus tingitanus*	(L.) C. Presl	heterotypic synonym
*Carthamus caeruleus subsp. tingitanus*	(L.) Giardina, Raimondo & Spadaro	heterotypic synonym
*Carthamus tingitanus*	L.	heterotypic synonym
*Carthamus coeruleus*		orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Arabic: خُشْروف أَزْرَق sources: Nehmé, M. 2000: Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Flore du Liban

English: Blue Thistle sources: Haslam, S. M., Sell, P. D. & Wolsely, P. A. 1977: A Flora of the Maltese Islands. – Msida

French: Cardoncelle bleue; Cardoncelle bleue sources: 2006: Tela Botanica, Le réseau de la botanique francophone – http://www.tela-botanica.org/;Gamisans, J. 2007: Flora Corsica