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Carthamus tinctorius L.
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius L. APNI*

Description: Herb to 60 cm high; stem glabrous or with a few minute hairs, striate.

Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 2–12 cm long, with long spines on margins; glabrous.

Heads 15–35 mm diam.; outer involucral bracts leaf-like, spreading to deflexed, rigid, pungent-pointed; inner bracts with ovate leaf-like appendage. Corollas bright orange.

Achenes 7–8 mm long; pappus absent or rarely a few minute scales.


Herbarium
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Flowering: winter–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Sometimes cultivated for its oil-yielding seeds, on roadsides, from southwest Sydney to the Pooncarie area. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A.
AVH map***

Text by L. Murray
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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