Flora of North America species comparison

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Cirsium edule var. wenatchense
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Wenatchee thistle
Peduncles

10–30 cm.
Involucres

3–4 × 4–5 cm, moderately arachnoid.
Corollas

29–33 mm, tubes 9–11 mm, throats 8–12 mm, lobes 9–10 mm;

style tips 3–4 mm.
Heads

mostly borne singly.
Cypselae

dark brown, 4.5–6 mm;

pappi 20–25 mm.
Phyllary

apices widely spreading, long-acicular, spines 5–15 mm.

Cirsium edule var. wenatchense
Phenology Flowering summer (Jul–Aug).
Habitat Stream banks, rocky slopes
Elevation 600–1200 m (2000–3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety wenatchense is known only from the Wenatchee Mountains of central Washington. Little is known of its ecology.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 147.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cardueae > Cirsium > Cirsium edule
Sibling taxa
C. edule var. edule, C. edule var. macounii
Name authority D. J. Keil: Sida 21: 213. (2004)
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