Species of flowering plant
Cirsium canescens
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Plantae
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Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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Clade:
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Angiosperms
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Clade:
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Eudicots
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Clade:
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Asterids
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Order:
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Asterales
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Family:
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Asteraceae
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Genus:
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Cirsium
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Species:
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C. canescens
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Binomial name
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Cirsium canescens
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Synonyms[1]
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- Carduus nebraskensis Britton (1898)
- Carduus nelsonii Pammel (1909)
- Carduus plattensis Rydb. (1895)
- Carduus plattensis var. spinosior Rydb. (1895)
- Carduus undulatus var. canescens (Nutt.) Porter (1894)
- Cirsium nebraskense Lunell (1912)
- Cirsium nebraskense var. formidolosum Lunell (1913)
- Cirsium nelsonii Rydb. (1917)
- Cirsium plattense (Rydb.) Cockerell ex Daniels (1911)
- Cnicus canescens Pammel (1901)
- Cnicus nelsonii Pammel (1901)
- Cnicus undulatus var. canescens (Nutt.) A.Gray (1874)
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Cirsium canescens, commonly known as prairie thistle,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It is a thistle native to the north-central and western United States, where it grows in Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, and in California and Nevada.[1]
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