Cirsium canum (L.) All. Queen Anne's Thistle

Cirsium canum (L.) All. - Queen Anne's Thistle

Scientific Description:

Tall perennial, 70−200 cm with rhizome bearing fusiform-cylindrical roots. Stems shortly or narrowly winged, or unwinged, usually sparsely branched above. Basal leaves oblanceolate, 20−35(−40) × 3−7 cm incl. attenuate petiole, 2-serrate pectinate into weak unequal spinules. Cauline leaves few to many, smaller, median oblong to linear-lanceolate, subsessile, pectinate-margined like basal leaves, subglabrous to arachnoid. Capitula solitary on (5−)15−30 cm leafless peduncles. Involucres hemispherical, 16−20 mm. Phyllaries 7−11-seriate, median oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, acute to shortly acuminate-mucronate, with dark vitta. Corollas 18−22 mm, purplish-pink. Achenes c. 4.5 mm. Pappus 15−18 mm.

 

Flowering time: July−August.

Habitat: Water meadows, marshy places, springs and ditches, 150−1620 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH & Parris BS (1975). Cirsium canum (L.) All., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 400.

Public Description:

Cirsium canum, known as “Queen Anne’s thistle”, is native to Europe, Balkans, Türkiye, Siberia, Caucasus and Iran. It is a perennial plant with purplish-pink flowers, and grows up to 200 cm in length. It has dark vitta on flowers. It blooms between July and August and is found in water meadows, marshy places, springs and ditches.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2017). https://es.wikipedia.org/Cirsium_canum,Accessed date: 16.11.2017.

Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=5251,Accessed date: 16.11.2017.

Yıldız B (2012). Cirsium Mill., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 141–146.