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Stems

ascending to erect, slender, 10–50 cm.

Leaf

faces glabrous or nearly so.

Involucres

2–2.5 cm, thinly arachnoid-tomentose or glabrate, individual phyllaries evident.

Corollas

purple, 17–26 mm, tubes 5–10 mm, throats 4.5–10.5 mm, lobes 5.5–7.5 mm.

Phyllaries

sometimes suffused with dark purple;

outer with few–many lateral spines;

apical spines slender to stout.

Heads

usually short-pedunculate, in erect, short, racemiform or spiciform arrays, rarely openly branched.

Pappi

15–19 mm.

Cirsium eatonii var. eatonii

Phenology Flowering summer (Jul–Sep).
Habitat Rocky slopes, canyons, pinyon-juniper woodlands to alpine, montane coniferous forests, subalpine forests, alpine slopes
Elevation 2100–3500 m (6900–11500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NV; UT
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Discussion

Variety eatonii is distributed on various of the sky islands in the Basin and Range province of Nevada and Utah. Habitats vary from shaded forest understory sites to forest openings or open exposed sites.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 151.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cardueae > Cirsium > Cirsium eatonii
Sibling taxa
C. eatonii var. clokeyi, C. eatonii var. eriocephalum, C. eatonii var. hesperium, C. eatonii var. murdockii, C. eatonii var. peckii, C. eatonii var. viperinum
Synonyms C. eatonii var. harrisonii
Name authority unknown
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