Cardopatiinae[3] Carduinae Carlininae Centaureinae Echinopsidinae The Cardueae are a tribe of flowering plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae) and the subfamily Carduoideae.

[5] Most of them are commonly known as thistles;[6] four of the best known genera are Carduus,[7] Cynara (containing the widely eaten artichoke), Cirsium,[7] and Onopordum.

Many species are thorny on leaves, stems, or involucre, and some have laticifers or resin conduits.

Almost 80 genera comprising 2500 species are assigned to this tribe,[8] native of temperate regions of Europe and Asia (especially the Mediterranean region and Minor Asia), Australia and tropical Africa; only three[9] genera contain species native to the Americas.

In 1806, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle published the name Cynarocephalae.