Cirsium creticum(Lam.) d'Urv.

WFO wfo-0000114702 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cirsium creticum, photographed by George Papademetriou
fig. a George Papademetriou, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-11 / obs. 150047187
Cirsium creticum, photographed by George Papademetriou
fig. b George Papademetriou, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150047211
Cirsium creticum, photographed by George Papademetriou
fig. c George Papademetriou, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150224075

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Cirsium creticum is native: Libya, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe LibyaEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Cirsium creticum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR
Libya LBY AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Carduus creticus Lam.
  • Carduus hippolyti Bory & Chaub.
  • Cirsium creticum subsp. dictaeum Greuter, Matthäs & Risse
  • Cirsium creticum var. creticum
  • Cirsium creticum var. triumfetti Lacaita
  • Cirsium gaillardotii Boiss.
  • Cirsium hippolyti (Bory & Chaub.) Link
  • Cirsium hippolyti Link ex Steud.
  • Cirsium longispinum A.Kern.
  • Cirsium polyanthemum var. creticum (Lam.) Fiori
  • Cirsium polyanthemum var. integrifolium Longo
  • Cirsium polyanthemum var. longispinum (Jur.) Fiori
  • Cirsium polyanthemum var. triumfetti (Lacaita) Fiori
  • Cirsium polyanthos d'Urv.
  • Cirsium pseudogaillardoti Arènes
  • Cirsium siculum subsp. gaillardotii (Boiss.) Petr.
  • Cirsium siculum subsp. polyanthos Nyman
  • Cirsium siculum var. hyppolyti (Bory & Chaub.) Boiss.
  • Cirsium triumfettii Lacaita

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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