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A Nursery Study of Large-Flowered Taxa of Carduus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

M. K. McCarty
M. K. McCarty*
Affiliation:
Agric. Res. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric., Lincoln, NE 68583
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Abstract

Populations of large-flowered taxa of Carduus from many locations in the United States and Canada were grown in a common nursery from 1975 to 1983 at Lincoln, NE. Dates of first bloom and associated degree-day accumulation data exhibited some consistent relationships. Four species appeared to be represented in the collection. These included Carduus thoermeri Wein., C. macrocephalus Desf., and musk thistle (C. nutans L. ♯ CRUNU). A collection from British Columbia should be accorded species status but apparently has not been named in the literature. Interbreeding has taken place in the nursery and these combinations are intermediate between C. thoermeri and C. macrocephalus and between C. thoermeri and the British Columbia material. Some morphological characteristics supported these separations.

Keywords

Degree-day accumulationCarduus thoermeriC. macrocephalusC. nutansCRUNU
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , September 1985 , pp. 664 - 668
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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