Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 823 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Angliae, Galliae, Italilae aggeribus ruderatis."

Gaertner, J. (1791), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2(3): 378 [basionym]

basionym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): cviii [secondary reference]

Bennett, G. (1860), Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia: 282 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 458 [secondary reference]

Tenison-Woods, J.E. (1881), Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 44 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 534 [secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 235 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 97 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 199 [secondary reference]

common name: Milk Thistle [n/a]

Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 1186 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Thistle [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 583 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 367 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 673 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 56 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 11 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

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