Cirsium
Genus in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
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Distribution
© Chih-Yi Chang, Hsy-Yu Tzeng, Yen-Hsueh Tseng (licence)Thistle
Cirsium is a genus of perennial and biennial flowering plants in the Asteraceae, one of several genera known commonly as thistles. They are more precisely known as plume thistles. These differ from other thistle genera (Carduus, Silybum and Onopordum) in having feathered hairs to their achenes. The other genera have a pappus of simple unbranched hairs. They are mostly native to Eurasia and norther... © Wikipedia authors and editors (licence)
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- Parent Taxon
- Compositae
- Species
- Taxonomic Completion
1.25%
6 of 481 accepted Species- Global Pollen Project UUID
- fdeb8898-908a-4747-8a9b-231fd9ebad74
- Botanical Reference
- None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
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