Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Cirsium canescens Nutt.


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

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Name: Cirsium canescens Nutt. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 7: 420. 1841 [2 Apr 1841]
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Prairie thistle
en English name: Platte thistle
English name: prairie thistle

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial
 

Synonyms:
= Carduus undulatus Nutt. var. canescens (Nutt.) Porter
= Cirsium nebraskense (Britton) Lunell
= Cirsium nelsonii (Pammel) Petr.
= Cirsium plattense (Rydb.) Cockerell ex Daniels



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 422 ( AVG: 223.08 / 292.139 )



Gallery:

Cirsium canescens
Cirsium canescens
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: 552.

Cirsium canescens
Cirsium canescens
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: 551.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CO, IA, ID, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, SD, WI, WY)

Distributional map for Cirsium canescens Nutt.
Map for Cirsium canescens Nutt.
(*) 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 canum (L.) All. [536]
2) Cirsium congdonii J.W. Moore & Frankton [138]
3) Cirsium davisii Cronquist [149]
4) Cirsium drummondii Torr. & A. Gray ssp. latisquamum Petr. [148]
5) Cirsium drummondii Torr. & A. Gray var. acaulescens (Rydb.) J.F. Macbr. [133]
6) Cirsium eatonii (A. Gray) B.L. Rob. var. murdockii S.L. Welsh [137]
7) Cirsium filipendulum Engelm. [130]
8) Cirsium hallii (A. Gray) M.E. Jones [153]
9) Cirsium horridulum Michx. [702]
10) Cirsium magnificum (A. Nelson) Petr. [135]

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