Cirsium wheeleri is a perennial herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall with a large taproots. Leaves have slender spines. There are one or more flower heads, each with white, pink, or pale purple disc florets but no ray florets. The plant grows in mountain meadows and open conifer forests.[2]
cirsium, wheeleri, north, american, species, plants, tribe, cardueae, within, family, asteraceae, common, names, include, wheeler, thistle, native, northern, mexico, chihuahua, sonora, southwestern, united, states, arizona, mexico, colorado, utah, nevada, scie. Cirsium wheeleri is a North American species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae Common names include Wheeler s thistle It is native to northern Mexico Chihuahua Sonora and the southwestern United States Arizona New Mexico Colorado Utah Nevada 2 3 Cirsium wheeleriScientific classificationKingdom PlantaeClade TracheophytesClade AngiospermsClade EudicotsClade AsteridsOrder AsteralesFamily AsteraceaeGenus CirsiumSpecies C wheeleriBinomial nameCirsium wheeleri A Gray Petr Synonyms 1 Carduus perennans Greene Carduus wheeleri A Gray A Heller Cirsium blumeri Petr Cirsium perennans Greene Wooton amp Standl Cnicus wheeleri A GrayCirsium wheeleri is a perennial herb up to 60 cm 2 feet tall with a large taproots Leaves have slender spines There are one or more flower heads each with white pink or pale purple disc florets but no ray florets The plant grows in mountain meadows and open conifer forests 2 References Edit The Plant List Cirsium wheeleri A Gray Petr a b Flora of North America Wheeler s thistle Cirsium wheeleri A Gray Petrak Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapExternal links Edit Media related to Cirsium wheeleri at Wikimedia Commons Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden collected 1906 in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona This Cynareae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cirsium wheeleri amp oldid 1094162608, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
