Index / Search / Cirsium occidentale var. californicum
§1 Plant
Cirsium occidentale (Nutt.) Jeps. var. californicum (A. Gray) Keil & C. Turner
vernacular cobwebby thistle — variety · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Cirsium
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 25 counties across 1 state§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 25 counties across 1 state.
California view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Kern 06029
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Mariposa 06043
- Monterey 06053
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Riverside 06065
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CIOCC4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4220456 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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