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Scientific or common name:

Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill


ASTERACEAE Family selection - Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Hort. Kew. (Hill) 63. 1768
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Tall thistle
en English name: roadside thistle
English name: tall thistle

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial
 

Synonyms:
= Carduus altissimus L.
= Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill var. biltmoreanum Petr.


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill var. biltmoreanum Petr.
2) Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill var. filipendulum (Engelm.) A. Gray



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Cirsium
Species:


Page counter: 659 ( AVG: 222.25 / 291.354 )



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Cirsium altissimum
Cirsium altissimum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 549.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV)

Distributional map for Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill
Map for Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill var. biltmoreanum Petr. [140]
2) Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill var. filipendulum (Engelm.) A. Gray [143]
3) Cirsium amblylepis Petr. [123]
4) Cirsium andersonii (A. Gray) Petr. [313]
5) Cirsium arizonicum (A. Gray) Petr. var. nidulum (M.E. Jones) S.L. Welsh [136]
6) Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. horridum Wimm. & Grab. [143]
7) Cirsium bigelovii DC. [133]
8) Cirsium breweri (A. Gray) Jeps. var. lanosissimum Petr. p.p. [93]
9) Cirsium callilepis (Greene) Jeps. [143]
10) Cirsium davisii Cronquist [148]

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