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| | Species: Carduus nutans |
 | | In North American literature, the scientific name Carduus nutans L., commonly known as musk thistle, has been applied to an aggregate of large-flowered plumeless thistles in the aster (Asteraceae) family [92]. |
 | | This report uses Carduus nutans L. as the scientific name for the musk thistle complex as it occurs in North America [8,17,37,42,53,60,67,74,87,94,112,128,130]. |
 | | Carduus nutans L. and Carduus acanthoides L. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. |
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