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Cirsium arvense (Creeping Thistle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cirsium arvense is a species of Cirsium, native throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere. The standard English name in its native area is creeping thistle.
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Infraspecies

Cirsium arvense f. albiflorum
Cirsium arvense var. alpestre
Cirsium arvense var. arvense
Cirsium arvense var. integrifolium (Attributes)
Cirsium arvense var. vestitum

Invasive Species

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Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  Pink
Dispersal Mode [5]  Anemochory
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera, Beetles, Bats
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The seed fluff is used as a tinder; The seed of all species of thistles yields a good oil by expression; The seed of this species contains about 22% oil;
Height [2]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
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♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Foraging ecology of bison at the landscape and plant community levels: the applicability of energy maximization principles, Daniel Fortin, John M. Fryxell, Lloyd O’Brodovich, Dan Frandsen, Oecologia (2003) 134:219–227
♦ 10Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0