Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.

Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.

Nomencl. ref.: Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 2: 126 (1772)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Canada thistle

English name: boar thistle

English name: California thistle

French name: cirse des champs

Italian name: Cardo dei campi comune

German name: Acker-Kratzdistel

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Breea arvensis (L.) Less.
= Breea incana (S.G. Gmel.) W.A. Weber, ined.
= Carduus arvensis (L.) Robson
= Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. argenteum (Vest) Fiori
= Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. horridum Wimm. & Grab.
= Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. integrifolium Wimm. & Grab.
= Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. mite Wimm. & Grab.
= Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. vestitum Wimm. & Grab.
= Cirsium incanum (S.G. Gmel.) Fisch. ex M. Bieb.
= Cirsium setosum (Willd.) Besser ex M. Bieb.
= Serratula arvensis L.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. argenteum (Vest) Fiori
2) Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. horridum Wimm. & Grab.
3) Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. integrifolium Wimm. & Grab.
4) Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. mite Wimm. & Grab.
5) Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. var. vestitum Wimm. & Grab.

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 2821 ( AVG: 221.22 / 219.911 )

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, località Calamor, lungo la strada, BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Cirsium arvense

Cirsium arvense
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, altopiano di Cariadeghe, località Calamor. , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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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: 553.

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Cirsium arvense
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

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Cirsium arvense
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Cirsium arvense
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Muggia, lungo la strada che costeggia il Rio Ospo. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, località Basovizza, TS, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

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NPS Photo - J Schmidt - 1977 - Public domain image.

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C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Cirsium arvense
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, Altopiano di Cariadeghe, località Calamor. , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Cirsium arvense
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

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Credit: Photo by Pino Perino

Cirsium arvense
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

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Cirsium arvense
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.
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(*) 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 brevistylum Cronquist [319]
2) Cirsium californicum A. Gray [207]
3) Cirsium canescens Nutt. [419]
4) Cirsium chellyense J.W. Moore & Frankton [244]
5) Cirsium discolor (Muhl. ex Willd.) Spreng. [283]
6) Cirsium grahamii A. Gray [347]
7) Cirsium horridulum Michx. [699]
8) Cirsium muticum Michx. [361]
9) Cirsium pumilum Spreng. [456]
10) Cirsium undulatum (Nutt.) Spreng. var. tracyi (Rydb.) S.L. Welsh [237]

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