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§1 Plant
Onopordum acanthium L.
vernacular Scotch cottonthistle — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Onopordum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 282 counties across 32 states/territories§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.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 282 counties across 32 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
California view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Fresno 06019
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Sutter 06101
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 9 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 42 I ▾
- Ada 16001
- Adams 16003
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Benewah 16009
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Boundary 16021
- Butte 16023
- Camas 16025
- Canyon 16027
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Clearwater 16035
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Franklin 16041
- Fremont 16043
- Gem 16045
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Jefferson 16051
- Jerome 16053
- Kootenai 16055
- Latah 16057
- Lewis 16061
- Lincoln 16063
- Madison 16065
- Minidoka 16067
- Nez Perce 16069
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Payette 16075
- Power 16077
- Shoshone 16079
- Twin Falls 16083
- Valley 16085
- Washington 16087
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Baker 41001
- Benton 41003
- Columbia 41009
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Deschutes 41017
- Gilliam 41021
- Grant 41023
- Harney 41025
- Hood River 41027
- Jefferson 41031
- Klamath 41035
- Lake 41037
- Malheur 41045
- Morrow 41049
- Sherman 41055
- Umatilla 41059
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Adams 53001
- Asotin 53003
- Benton 53005
- Clallam 53009
- Columbia 53013
- Douglas 53017
- Ferry 53019
- Franklin 53021
- Garfield 53023
- Grant 53025
- King 53033
- Kittitas 53037
- Klickitat 53039
- Lewis 53041
- Lincoln 53043
- Okanogan 53047
- Pend Oreille 53051
- San Juan 53055
- Skamania 53059
- Spokane 53063
- Stevens 53065
- Thurston 53067
- Walla Walla 53071
- Whatcom 53073
- Whitman 53075
- Yakima 53077
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ONAC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3094900 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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