Characteristics
Dicots
Cirsium altissimum (L.)Spreng.
TALL THISTLE
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Classification
ASTERALES
Cirsium altissimum (L.)Spreng. - TALL THISTLE
Citation
CIRSIUM ALTISSIMUM (Linnaeus) Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 3: 373. 1826.
Carduus altissimus Linnaeus 1753.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Without data (lectotype: Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. t. 69(80). 1732). Lectotypified by Reveal, in C. E. Jarvis & Turland, Taxon 47: 356. 1998.
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