Cirsium remotifolium var. remotifolium
Common names: Remote-leaved thistle
Phyllaries imbricate or often subequal, narrowly oblong or linear, entire or sometimes weakly expanded and scarious. Corollas cream-colored, 20–28 mm, tubes 6–12 mm, throats 8–10 mm, lobes 4.5–6.5 mm.
Phenology: Flowering late spring–summer (May–Aug).
Habitat: Fields, meadows, forest openings, open woods, brushy slopes
Elevation: 40–1400 m
Distribution
Calif., Oreg., Wash.
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.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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green +
glabrous +
short-tailed +
introrse +
connate +
innermost +
rounded;acute +
scarious +
linear-oblong +
hirsute +
papillate +
angled +
continuous +
absent +
flexuous +
reflexed +
expanded +
narrow +
scarious +
auriculate-clasping +
appressed +
spinulose +
dentate or;shallowly deeply pinnatifid +
ascending;arising +
hairy +
0;10 +
slender +
barbellate +
many +
coarse +
absent +
Remote-leaved thistle +
actinomorphic +
bilateral +
cream-colored +
monomorphic +
not ribbed +
glabrous +
4.5mm;5.5mm +
sometimes spinier +
separated +
reduced +
straight +
eglandular +
green +
distinct +
proximal +
25;200 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
branched +
discoid +
singly +
indeterminate +
terminal +
few;many +
homogamous +
surrounding +
ovoid;hemispheric or campanulate +
bristly-dentate +
alternate +
clustered +
bristle-tipped +
separated +
? (?) +
scarious +
broad +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
persistent +
falling +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
imbricate +
persistent +
distinct +
herbaceous +
many +
connate +
stigmatic +
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. +
1838 +
absent +
epaleate +
flat;convex +
glutinous +
inconspicuous +
fibrous +
perennating +
polycarpic +
tawny;white +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
6;8 +
subequal +
absent +
alternate +
erect +
2-branched +
ringed +
enlarged +
elongate +
Cirsium remotifolium var. remotifolium +
Cirsium remotifolium +
variety +
cylindric +
expanded +
dentate +
bristly-dentate to coarsely +
septate +
long +
bent +
taprooted +
perennial +
monocarpic +