Cirsium canescens Nuttall (Q3024)

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Cirsium canescens is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cirsium
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Cirsium canescens Nuttall
Cirsium canescens is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Cirsium

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    taxon/id/Cirsium canescens Nuttall
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    Cirsium canescens Nuttall
    Cirsium canescens
    Nuttall
    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 grisonnant (French)
    prairie thistle (English)
    platte thistle (English)
    Platte or prairie thistle (English)
    Flowering spring–summer (May–Aug).
    gravelly soils
    short-grass prairie
    disturbed areas
    mountain meadows
    grassy slopes
    montane coniferous forests
    1100–3800 m
    Stems usually 1, erect, ± densely gray-tomentose with fine, non-septate trichomes;
    branches 0 or few, usually above middle in distal 1/2, ascending.
    Leaves: blades oblong to elliptic or obovate, 10–25 (–40) × 2–6 (–12) cm, coarsely dentate or shallowly lobed to deeply pinnatifid, lobes well separated, triangular to linear or oblong, often revolute-margined, ascending to spreading, spinulose to spinose-dentate, main spines 2–3 (–10) mm, faces gray-tomentose, more densely abaxially, sometimes glabrate adaxially;
    basal usually present at flowering, winged-petiolate;
    principal cauline progressively reduced distally, bases decurrent as spiny wings 1–5 cm, sometimes with expanded auricles;
    distal cauline usually much reduced, less lobed.
    Heads 1–10+, terminal on branches or in distal axils, in openly corymbiform to racemiform arrays.
    Peduncles 0–10 cm.
    Involucres hemispheric to broadly campanulate, usually truncate or indented at base, 3–4 × 2.5–4 cm in first-formed heads, often smaller (1.5–2 cm) in later ones, loosely arachnoid on phyllary margins or glabrate.
    Phyllaries in 6–9 series, imbricate, ovatelanceolate (outer) to linear-lanceolate (inner), abaxial faces with prominent glutinous ridge;
    bodies of outer and middle appressed, acute, spines ascending to spreading, 2–4 (–8) mm;
    apices of inner expanded and flat, often twisted, scabrid-margined, and erose, spineless.
    Corollas dull white or lavender-tinged, 20–35 mm, tubes 10–17 mm, throats 6–11 mm, lobes 4–9 mm;
    style tips 5–8 mm.
    Cypselae light-brown, 5–7 mm, sometimes with darker streaks, apical collar very narrow, lighter colored;