| Carthamus glaucus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Carthamus |
| Species: | C. glaucus
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| Binomial name | |
| Carthamus glaucus | |
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Carthamus glaucus, the glaucous star thistle, is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found in Israel, Lebanon and Egypt.[2] It is also reported as an invasive species in Victoria, Australia.
It is parasitized by Cuscuta babylonica.[3]
- ^ Tabl. prov. Mer casp. 118. 1798
- ^ The plant communities of barley fields and uncultivated desert areas of Mareotis (Egypt). T. M. Tadros and Berlanta A. M. Atta, Vegetatio, May 1958, Volume 8, Issue 3, pages 161–175
- ^ The effect of Cuscuta babylonica Aucher (Cuscuta) parasitism on the phenolic contents of Carthamus glaucus Bieb.subsp. glaucus. Hilal SURMUŞ ASAN, Hasan Çetin ÖZEN, Iğdır Univ. J. Inst. Sci. & Tech. 6(4): 31-39, 2016 (link Archived 2018-03-27 at the Wayback Machine)