Cirsium fargesii (Franch.) Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Cirsium

Characteristics

Herbs to 1 m tall, perennial. Stems erect, sparingly branched above, ribbed, unwinged, sparsely cobwebby and with long multicellular hairs. Leaves smooth on both faces, abaxially green or grayish white and glabrous or sparsely cobwebby-felted, adaxially green and glabrous. Lower to middle cauline leaves petiolate; leaf blade broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 20-30 × 7-8 cm, pinnatifid; segments ca. 6 pairs, elliptic to ± broadly triangular, teeth laterally shortly spiny and with an apical spine to 1 cm; terminal segment narrowly lanceolate, margin spiny. Middle and upper cauline leaves similar but sessile, semiamplexicaul. Capitula few, corymbose. Involucre broadly campanulate, ca. 4 cm in diam., ± cobwebby. Phyllaries in ca. 4 rows, lacking wings and scarious appendage, all of similar length; outer and middle phyllaries 2.1-2.4 × ca. 0.3 cm, pectinately fringed with ca. 2 mm spinules, basal portion linear to triangular, apical portion subulate, patent to slightly recurved, and tipped with a brown spine; inner phyllaries linear, ca. 2.1 × 0.2 cm, with an apical spine. Florets bisexual. Corolla purplish, ca. 2.2 cm, tube ca. 1 cm. Mature achene unknown. Pappus bristles to 2 cm. Fl. Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 18
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Cirsium fargesii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:195340-1
WFO ID wfo-0000094202
COL ID VHWG
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Synonyms

Cnicus fargesii Cirsium fargesii