Cirsium undulatum (Nuttall) Sprengel (Q3021)

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Cirsium undulatum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cirsium
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Cirsium undulatum (Nuttall) Sprengel
Cirsium undulatum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cirsium

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    taxon/id/Cirsium undulatum (Nuttall) Sprengel
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    Cirsium undulatum (Nuttall) Sprengel
    Cirsium undulatum
    (Nuttall) Sprengel
    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
    chardon des prairies (French)
    wavy-leaved thistle (English)
    grey thistle (English)
    pasture thistle (English)
    Wavyleaf or gray or pasture thistle (English)
    1 reference
    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/
    1 reference
    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    Mexico (Chihuahua)
    Mexico (Coahuila)
    Mexico (Durango)
    Mexico (Sonora)
    Flowering spring–autumn (May–Oct).
    mixedgrass prairie
    shortgrass prairie
    palouse prairie
    sagebrush deserts
    pinyon-juniper woodlands
    openings
    montane coniferous
    forests
    disturbed areas
    100–2800 m
    deeply seated runner roots that produce adventitious-buds.
    Stems 1–several, erect or ascending, densely gray-tomentose;
    branches 0–few, usually above middle, ascending.
    Leaves: blades elliptic to oblong or ovate, 10–40 × 1–10 cm, margins strongly undulate, coarsely dentate or shallowly to deeply lobed, lobes ascending to spreading, ± triangular, well separated to closely spaced, spinulose and coarsely dentate or usually cleft into 2–3 lanceolate to triangular, often entire-margined, spine-tipped divisions, main spines (yellowish), 2–12+ mm, abaxial densely gray-tomentose, adaxial faces thinly tomentose;
    basal sometimes present at flowering, winged-petiolate;
    principal cauline becoming sessile and progressively reduced distally, widest at base, bases ± auriculate-clasping to short-decurrent;
    distal reduced, spinier.
    Heads 1–10+, terminal on branches, in leafy, ± corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles 0–25+ cm.
    Involucres ovoid to hemispheric or broadly campanulate, 2.5–4.5 × 1.5–4.5 cm, loosely arachnoid on phyllary margins or glabrate.
    Phyllaries in 8–12 series, imbricate, ovate to lanceolate (outer) to linear-lanceolate (inner), abaxial faces with prominent glutinous ridge;
    outer and middle appressed, spines spreading, 1.5–5 mm;
    apices of inner narrow, often flexuous, flat, ± entire, spineless or weakly spiny.
    Corollas lavender to pink, purple, or white, 24–50 mm, tubes 12–28 mm, throats 6–14 mm, lobes 6.5–13 mm;
    style tips 5–7.5 mm.
    Cypselae light to dark-brown, 6–7 mm, bodies and apical collars concolorous, narrow;