Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dipsacus fullonum L. [Caprifoliaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
card teasel	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
cardaire sauvage	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
common teasel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
dinsāqous	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
fuller's teasel	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
fuller's thistle	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
kardvädd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
teasel	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
teazles	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
wild teasel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
wilde karde	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
دينساقوس	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Aerial parts		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dipsacus sylvestris Huds. Fl. Angl.: 49 (1762).
Dipsacus arcimusci Lojac. Fl. Sicul. 3: 447 (1909).
Dipsacus botterii Maly ex Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 345 (1879).
Dipsacus carminatorius Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 55 (1796).
Dipsacus connatofolius Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 1: 166 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Dipsacus divaricatus C.Presl Prodr. Fl. Sicul.: 57 (1819).
Dipsacus fullonum var. comosus Lej. Rev. Fl. Spa: 225 (1825).
Dipsacus fullonum var. divaricatus (C.Presl) Alef. Landw. Fl.: 170 (1866).
Dipsacus fullonum var. intermedius Coss. Notes Pl. Crit.: 113 (1851).
Dipsacus fullonum var. laciniatus Alef. Landw. Fl.: 170 (1866).
Dipsacus fullonum var. pallidus Alef. Landw. Fl.: 170 (1866).
Dipsacus fullonum var. sylvestris (Huds.) Huds. Fl. Angl., ed. 2: 61 (1778).
Dipsacus fullonum subsp. sylvestris Ehrh. Hannover. Mag. 18: 216 (1780), not validly publ.
Dipsacus fullonum subsp. sylvestris (Huds.) A.R.Clapham in A.R.Clapham, T.G.Tutin & E.F.Warburg, Fl. Brit. Isles: 1013 (1952).
Dipsacus fullonum subsp. sylvestris (Huds.) P.Fourn. Quatre Fl. France: 897 (1939).
Dipsacus fullonum var. technicus Alef. Landw. Fl.: 170 (1866).
Dipsacus fullonum f. ternatus Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 370 (1919 publ. 1920).
Dipsacus horridus Opiz Seznam: 38 (1852).
Dipsacus meyeri Chabert Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53: 546 (1906).
Dipsacus mirabilis Gand. Fl. Lyon.: 117 (1875).
Dipsacus morisonii Boreau Index Seminum (Angers) 1842: 6 (1842).
Dipsacus orsini Sanguin. Atti Accad. Pontif. Sci. Nuovi Lincei 5: 725 (1852).
Dipsacus palustris Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 55 (1796).
Dipsacus purpurascens Gand. Fl. Lyon.: 117 (1875).
Dipsacus silvester A.Kern. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 20: 359 (1870).
Dipsacus sinuatus Schltdl. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 3: 519 (1818).
Dipsacus sylvestris f. albidus Steyerm. Rhodora 60: 175 (1958).
Dipsacus sylvestris var. laciniatus Klett & Richt. Fl. Leipzig: 130 (1830).
Dipsacus vulgaris C.C.Gmel. Fl. Bad. 1: 312 (1805).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dipsacus fullonum	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Dipsacus fullonum (L.) Miller	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Dipsacus fullonum L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Dipsacus sylvestris Miler	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Dipsacus sylvestris Mill.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)

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