Carthamus Leucocaulos (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carthamus leucocaulos, the whitestem distaff thistle or glaucous starthistle, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is native to Greece and the Aegean. It is known in California and Western Australia as an introduced species and a noxious weed. Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The scientific study of plants, known as botany, has identified about 350,000 extant species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns and fern allies.