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§1 Plant — species · Asteraceae
Carduus nutans L.
vernacular nodding plumeless thistle
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Carduus
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 27 of 56 Montana counties.
- Beaverhead 30001
- Broadwater 30007
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Pondera 30073
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CANU4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8185959 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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