pacific fringed thistle

Cirsium remotifolium var. odontolepis

Member of fewleaf thistle (Cirsium remotifolium)
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
• heads generally not closely subtended by well-developed distal leaves or clustered leafy bracts
• phyllary tips flattened, generally ascending, connected side-to-side by cobwebby hairs or not
• Mt. Tam, Briones

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Chris’s observations: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora