franciscan thistle

Cirsium andrewsii

Member of plume thistles (genus Cirsium)
thistles
sunflower family (family Asteraceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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CalPhotos

• abaxial face of outer and middle phyllaries without sticky-resinous ridge
• margins of outer phyllaries irregularly toothed to spiny-ciliate
• corolla lobes linear, tips not knob-like; style conspicuously exserted; stem cobwebby, ± glabrous in age, coarser, multicellular hairs 0
• Marin

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Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora