Cirsium drummondii Torrey &amp; A. Gray (Q3013)

taxon name

Cirsium drummondii

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taxon authority

Torrey & A. Gray

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taxon rank

species

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taxon status

accepted

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common name

chardon de Drummond (French)

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Drummond's thistle (English)

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dwarf thistle (English)

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short-stemmed thistle (English)

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Drummond’s or dwarf or short-stemmed thistle (English)

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VasCan taxon numeric id

2991

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distribution

CA-BC

present

native

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Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/

CA-AB

present

native

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Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.

CA-SK

present

native

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Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf

CA-MB

present

native

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Manitoba Checklist, 2002

CA-ON

present

native

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Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/

CA-NT

present

native

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Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.

CA-AB

Alta.

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CA-BC

B.C.

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CA-MB

Man.

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CA-NT

N.W.T.

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CA-ON

Ont.

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CA-SK

Sask.

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US-CO

Colo.

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US-SD

S.Dak.

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US-WY

Wyo.

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parent taxon

Cirsium Miller

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taxon habit

herb

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GBIF taxon key

3112951

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

IUCN Redlist Category

NE

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

phenology

Flowering summer (Jun–Aug).

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taxon habitat

dry to moist soil

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prairies

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pastures

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meadows

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forest edges

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woodland openings

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roadsides

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elevation

300–2300 m

measurement range from

300 meter

measurement range to

2,300 meter

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special status

E

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taxon description fragment

taproots stout.

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d0_s1

Stems erect, stout, fleshy, leafy, simple or distally branched, villous or tomentose with long, septate trichomes;

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d0_s2

branches usually short, stout, ascending.

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d0_s3

Leaves: blades oblongelliptic to oblanceolate, 15–30+ × 3–7 cm, usually shallowly to deeply pinnatifid, lobes ovate to broadly triangular, spreading, usually separated by broad U-shaped sinuses, spinose-dentate or coarsely lobed, main spines 2–5 (–8) mm, slender, abaxial faces villous with septate trichomes, at least along veins, sometimes thinly arachnoid, adaxial villous with septate trichomes;

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d0_s4

basal often present at flowering, spiny winged-petiolate;

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d0_s5

principal cauline winged-petiolate or sessile, not much reduced distally;

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d0_s6

distal reduced, similar to proximal, crowded around heads.

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d0_s7

Heads 1–5 (–9), borne singly or crowded in corymbiform arrays at tips of main-stems, often closely subtended and overtopped by 1–several distal leaves.

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d0_s8

Peduncles 0–5 (–10) cm, leafy-bracted.

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d0_s9

Involucres broadly ovoid to hemispheric, 3.5–5 × 3.5–5 cm (appearing much wider and ± campanulate in pressed specimens), loosely arachnoid on phyllary margins or glabrate.

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d0_s10

Phyllaries in 4–6 series, strongly imbricate, ovate or broadly lanceolate (outer) to lance-linear (inner), abaxial faces with ± narrow glutinous ridge;

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d0_s11

outer and mid appressed, spines erect to ascending, 2–3 mm;

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d0_s12

apices of mid and inner narrowed and scabrid-denticulate, innermost spineless, with expanded, flexuous, erose-denticulate tips.

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d0_s13

Corollas purple (white), 30–48 mm, tubes 17–30 mm, throats 6.5–11 mm, lobes 5–7 mm;

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d0_s14

style tips 5–7 mm.

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d0_s15

Cypselae stramineous to light-brown, 3.5–5.5 mm, apical collar yellow, narrow;

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d0_s16

pappi 30–42 mm.

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d0_s17

morphology statement

erect

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d0_s2

fragility

stout

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d0_s2

texture

fleshy

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d0_s2

leafy

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d0_s2

simple

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d0_s2

branched

distally

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d0_s2

villous

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d0_s2

tomentose

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d0_s2

inflorescence branch

height

short

usually

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d0_s3

inflorescence branch

fragility

stout

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d0_s3

inflorescence branch

ascending

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d0_s3

oblongelliptic

oblanceolate

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d0_s4

15

30

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d0_s4

width

3

7

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d0_s4

pinnatifid

usually shallowly; shallowly to deeply

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d0_s4

ovate

broadly triangular

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d0_s4

spreading

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d0_s4

separated

usually

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d0_s4

spinose-dentate

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d0_s4

lobed

coarsely

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d0_s4

atypical some measurement

5

8

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d0_s4

2

5

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d0_s4

slender

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d0_s4

leaf face

villous

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d0_s4

leaf face

arachnoid

sometimes thinly

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d0_s4

leaf face

villous

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d0_s4

presence

absent

often

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d0_s5

spiny

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d0_s5

winged-petiolate

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d0_s5

winged-petiolate

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d0_s6

sessile

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d0_s6

reduced

not much; distally

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d0_s6

reduced

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d0_s7

position

proximal

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d0_s7

quantity

1

several

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d0_s8

inflorescence peduncle

atypical some measurement

5

10

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d0_s9

inflorescence peduncle

0

5

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d0_s9

inflorescence peduncle

leafy-bracted

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d0_s9

broadly ovoid

hemispheric

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d0_s10

3.5

5

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d0_s10

width

3.5

5

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d0_s10

arachnoid

loosely

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d0_s10

glabrate

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d0_s10

imbricate

strongly

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d0_s11

broadly lanceolate

lance-linear

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d0_s11

fixation

appressed

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d0_s12

erect

ascending

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d0_s12

2

3

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d0_s12

spineless

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d0_s13

expanded

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d0_s13

course

flexuous

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d0_s13

erose-denticulate

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d0_s13

inflorescence flower corolla

coloration

density

purple

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower corolla

30

48

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower corolla tube

17

30

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d0_s14

inflorescence flower perianth throat

6.5

11

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d0_s14

5

7

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d0_s14

5

7

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d0_s15

root collar

coloration

yellow

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d0_s16

root collar

width

narrow

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d0_s16

fruit pappus

30

42

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d0_s17

root taproot

fragility

stout

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d0_s1

long

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d0_s2

septate

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d0_s2

septate

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d0_s4

septate

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d0_s4

crowded

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d0_s7

atypical quantity

5

9

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d0_s8

quantity

1

5

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d0_s8

or

singly

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d0_s8

crowded

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d0_s8

general structure bundle array

corymbiform

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d0_s8

fruit cypsela

coloration

stramineous

light-brown

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d0_s16

fruit cypsela

3.5

5.5

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