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Cirsium kamtschaticum (Kamchatka thistle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cirsium kamtschaticum, called Kamchatka thistle, is an Alaskan and East Asian species of plants in the thistle tribe within the sunflower family. The species is found in eastern Russia (Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands), and on certain islands of the North Pacific: the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and Hokkaido Island in northern Japan.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera, Beetles, Bats
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The seed of all species of thistles yields a good oil by expression; No details of potential yields etc are given;
Height [1]  5.904 feet (1.8 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve 361480 Russia  

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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