Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten., 1838

🇬🇧 Spear Thistle

🇫🇷 Cirse à feuilles lancéolées, Cirse commun, Cirse lancéolé

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superasterids
Clade: Asterids
Clade: Campanulids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Carduinae
Genus: Cirsium
Species: Cirsium vulgare

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

C. vulgare subsp. crinitum (Boiss. ex DC.) Arènes, 1948, P;
C. vulgare subsp. silvaticum (Tausch) Arènes, 1948;
C. vulgare subsp. vulgare
- var. litorale P.D.Sell, 2006;
- var. vulgare (Savi) Ten., 1838, P.

Photographs

img/cirsium-vulgare.webp — Cirsium vulgare

img/cirsium-vulgare-2.webp — Cirsium vulgare

img/cirsium-vulgare-3.webp — Cirsium vulgare - Cauline leaf

img/cirsium-vulgare-4.webp — Cirsium vulgare - Flower bud

img/cirsium-vulgare-5.webp — Cirsium vulgare - Stem

Sources

Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 417). Biotope.