3080

Forb
Biennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of NC-SC, rare elsewhere

Look for it in moist to fairly dry pine savannas, bogs, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist ...Variable

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Leaf margins spiny

LEAVES:
Simple: Unlobed and/or dissected
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Purplish
Rays: Absent
Bisexual
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p172
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p131
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p207

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cirsium virginianum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cirsium virginianum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-25-007:
Carduus virginianus   FAMILY Asteraceae__