Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Cirsium remotifolium var. remotifolium
Photo is of parent taxon

few-leaf thistle, remote-leaf thistle, weak thistle
Corollas

cream-colored, 20–28 mm, tubes 6–12 mm, throats 8–10 mm, lobes 4.5–6.5 mm.
Phyllaries

imbricate or often subequal, narrowly oblong or linear, entire or sometimes weakly expanded and scarious.

Cirsium remotifolium var. remotifolium
Phenology Flowering late spring–summer (May–Aug).
Habitat Fields, meadows, forest openings, open woods, brushy slopes
Elevation 40–1400 m (100–4600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
Discussion

Variety remotifolium occurs primarily west of the Cascade Range in Washington and Oregon and on coastal-facing slopes in northwestern California. Intermediates with var. odontolepis are known through much of that range.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 130.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cardueae > Cirsium > Cirsium remotifolium
Sibling taxa
C. remotifolium var. odontolepis, C. remotifolium var. rivulare
Name authority unknown
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America, OregonFlora

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers