Cirsium pitcheri (Torrey ex Eaton) Torrey & A. Gray (Q3020)

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Cirsium pitcheri is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cirsium
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Cirsium pitcheri (Torrey ex Eaton) Torrey & A. Gray
Cirsium pitcheri is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cirsium

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    taxon/id/Cirsium pitcheri (Torrey ex Eaton) Torrey & A. Gray
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    Cirsium pitcheri (Torrey ex Eaton) Torrey & A. Gray
    Cirsium pitcheri
    (Torrey ex Eaton) Torrey & A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Torrey ex Eaton) Torrey & A. Gray
    chardon de Pitcher (French)
    Pitcher's thistle (English)
    dune thistle (English)
    sanddune thistle (English)
    Dune or sand-dune thistle (English)
    1 reference
    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/
    Flowering spring–summer (May–Sep).
    Stems 1 or few, erect, densely gray-tomentose;
    branches 0 to several, ascending to spreading.
    Leaves: blades elliptic to obovate, 10–30 × 8–14 cm, deeply divided nearly to midveins, lobes ascending to spreading, linear, remote, margins revolute, entire or minutely spinulose, main spines 1–2 mm, faces gray-tomentose, more densely so abaxially;
    basal present or withered at flowering, petiolate;
    principal cauline well distributed, bases decurrent as linear-lobed to spiny wings 1–3 cm;
    distal cauline well developed.
    Heads 1–20+ in corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles 0–5 cm.
    Involucres ovoid to campanulate, 2–3 × 2–3 cm, loosely arachnoid on phyllary margins or glabrate.
    Phyllaries in 6–8 series, imbricate, ovatelanceolate (outer) to linear-lanceolate (inner), abaxial faces with narrow glutinous ridge;
    outer and middle appressed, acute, spines ascending to spreading, slender, 1–2 (–3) mm;
    apices of inner often flexuous, flattened, spineless, scabrid.
    Corollas dull white or pinkish-tinged (rarely rich purple), 20–30 mm, tubes 8.5–15 mm, throats 4.5–10 mm, lobes 3–8 mm;
    style tips 3.5–5.5 mm.
    Cypselae light-brown, sometimes with darker streaks, 6–7.5 mm, apical collars lighter colored, very narrow;