Cirsium andersonii |
Cirsium praeteriens |
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Anderson's thistle, rose thistle |
lost or Palo Alto thistle, lost thistle, Palo Alto thistle |
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Habit | Perennials (but often appearing biennial), (15–)40–70(–100) cm; rootstocks producing erect, taprooted caudices and rosettes. | Biennials or perennials, probably more than 100 cm; rootstock unknown. |
Stems | usually 1, erect, subglabrous to puberulent and/or tomentose; branches 0–several, stiffly ascending. |
stout, erect, loosely arachnoid with fine trichomes and villous with jointed trichomes; branching unknown. |
Leaves | blades ± elliptic, 8–35 × 4–8 cm, divided about halfway to midveins, lobes spreading, triangular, coarsely dentate or with a few broad lobes, obtuse to acute, main spines 1–5 mm, abaxial faces green or gray, thinly tomentose, adaxial green and glabrous to sparingly pilose; basal often present at flowering, spiny winged-petiolate; main cauline reduced distally, bases clasping; distal much reduced, linear-oblong, usually less deeply lobed and often spinier than proximal. |
blades elliptic to oblanceolate, 15–30+ × 6–8+ cm, divided halfway or more to midveins, lobes linear-lanceolate, rigidly spreading, entire or trifid, acuminate, main spines stout, 5–15 mm, abaxial faces tomentose with fine, non-septate trichomes, villous along major veins with septate trichomes, adaxial glabrescent or sparsely tomentose, villous along veins; basal not observed; cauline well distributed, distally not much reduced, sessile, bases clasping, not decurrent. |
Peduncles | 0–20 cm. |
0–1 cm. |
Involucres | broadly cylindric to narrowly campanulate, 3–5 × 2–4 cm, loosely arachnoid or ± glabrous, finely short-ciliate. |
hemispheric to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 4–5+ cm, arachnoid. |
Corollas | red to reddish purple, 30–45 mm, tubes 10–20 mm, throats 10–16 mm, lobes 9–11 mm; style tips 3.5–5 mm. |
white, 30–33 mm, tubes 16 mm, throats 9–12 mm, lobes 5.5–9 mm; style tips 6 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 6–8 series, imbricate, outer green, inner purple to red, linear-lanceolate (outer) to linear (inner), abaxial faces without glutinous ridge; outer and mid bodies short, appressed, entire or spinulose-ciliate, apices long-spreading to ascending, entire or spinulose-ciliate or rarely with expanded, fringed appendages, spines straight, weak, 1–3 mm; apices of inner red to purple, straight or rarely twisted, long, flat, entire. |
in 6–8 series, narrowly lanceolate to linear, outer subequal, rigidly spreading, spines 5–10 mm, inner ± imbricate, bodies appressed, glutinous ridge absent, apices spreading, margins spinulose or scabrid, apices of mid and inner flattened, spineless, scabrid. |
Heads | 1–6, borne singly or in corymbiform, racemiform, or spiciform arrays. |
1–5, terminal and in distal axils in spiciform arrays. |
Cypselae | brown, 6–7 mm, apical collars narrow; pappi 25–40 mm. |
light brown, 6 mm, collars also light brown, ca. 0.75 mm; pappi 25–33 mm. |
2n | = 32, 64. |
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Cirsium andersonii |
Cirsium praeteriens |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jul–Sep). | Flowering summer (Jun–Jul). |
Habitat | Moist to dry soils, openings in montane woodlands, montaine coniferous forests, aspen groves | Habitat unknown |
Elevation | 1100–2900 m (3600–9500 ft) | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; NV
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CA |
Discussion | Cirsium andersonii grows in the Cascade Range of northern California south through the Sierra Nevada of eastern California and western Nevada. It has been reported from the mountains of southwestern Idaho, but I have not seen specimens from there. Heads of Cirsium andersonii are actively visited by hummingbirds as well as a variety of insects (P. L. Barlow-Irick 2002). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Cirsium praeteriens is known only from Santa Clara County, where J. W. Congdon collected it in Palo Alto in 1897 and 1901. It is presumed extinct. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 145. | FNA vol. 19, p. 160. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Cardueae > Cirsium | Asteraceae > tribe Cardueae > Cirsium |
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Synonyms | Cnicus andersonii | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Petrak: Bot. Tiddsskr. 31: 68. (1911) | J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 53: 19. (1918) |
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