Pest plant ACT. General biosecurity duty NSW.
http://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/Details/116
http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/carthamus_lanatus.htm
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/biodiversity/invasive/weeds/weeddetails.pl?taxon_id=9434
Carthamus lanatus is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast
Maps
Albury Aranda Bushland Bass Gardens Park, Griffith Bibbenluke Common Black Mountain Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Callum Brae Central Molonglo Cooma North Ridge Reserve Coombs Ponds Cotter Reserve Dunlop Grasslands Farrer Ridge Gibraltar Pines Gigerline Nature Reserve Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Googong Foreshore Gossan Hill Goulburn Mulwaree Council Harcourt Hill Hughes Garran Woodland Industrial Estate Wetlands Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Kama Kuma Nature Reserve Lower Molonglo Mcleods Creek Res (Gundaroo) Molonglo River Reserve Mount Ainslie Mount Majura Mount Painter Mount Taylor Mulanggari Grasslands Point Hut to Tharwa Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Rugosa Stranger Pond The Pinnacle Tuggeranong Hill Urambi Hills Wanniassa HillSurvey points
GG105Places
Fyshwick, ACT Gundaroo, NSW Isaacs, ACT Nicholls, ACT Red Hill, ACT Whitlam, ACT Yarralumla, ACT