| Country or region name |
Japan |
| Organism group |
plant |
| Order name |
Asterales |
| Family name |
Asteraceae |
| Species name |
Cirsium vulgare |
| English common name |
spear thistle, bull thistle, plumed thistle, roadside thistle, Scotch
thisle, common thisle, Scottish thisle |
| Substantially same species (synonym) |
Circium lanceolatum (L.) Scop. |
| Year of invasion or detection |
1960 |
| Native region |
Europe |
| Situation of establishment |
Category 4: Settled after 1951, but not distributed all over the
country |
| Taxonomic description |
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| Expansion of distribution area |
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| Environmental impact |
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| Economic damage |
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| Reproduction |
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| Growth |
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| Countermeasure |
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| Writer's name and affiliation |
| Mitsuo Horita, NIAES |
