Plants Profile for Chondrilla juncea (rush skeletonweed)

General Information
Symbol:	CHJU
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Asteraceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	CAN I L48 I
Other Common Names:	hogbite
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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. Turkey. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 314. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Asterales
Family	Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae – Aster family
Genus	Chondrilla L. – chondrilla
Species	Chondrilla juncea L. – rush skeletonweed

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Arizona rush skeletonweed Prohibited noxious weed
California skeletonweed A list (noxious weeds)
Colorado rush skeletonweed A list (noxious weeds)
Idaho rush skeletonweed Noxious weed
Montana rush skeletonweed Category 3 noxious weed
Nevada rush skeletonweed Noxious weed
Oregon rush skeletonweed "B" designated weed rush skeletonweed Quarantine
South Dakota rush skeletonweed Regulated non-native plant species
Washington rush skeletonweed Class B noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information
Chondrilla juncea rush skeletonweed This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

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