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Cirsium parryi
Also called Cloudcroft Thistle, Gila Thistle, Mogollon Thistle, Pale Thistle
Parry's thistle is a biennial wildflower native to the mountains of the southwestern US, growing up to about 2 m tall with spiny bracts and yellowish flower heads. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, and it prefers open, sunny, well-drained sites.
Cirsium parryi, or Parry's thistle, is a species of North American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it has been found in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Cirsium parryi is a biennial herb with a hairy stem growing up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall or more. The leaves are oblong or lance-shaped and measure 10 to 30 centimeters (4–12 inches) long. They are often toothed or divided partly into lobes. The lower ones have usually withered by flowering time. The inflorescence may contain many flower heads at the end of the stem and near the upper leaves. Each is up to 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) wide with spiny bracts at the base. The spiny phyllaries along the sides of the flower head are green with brownish tips. In the head are many flowers which are generally yellowish, or sometimes purplish or white. There are no ray florets.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cirsium parryi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
