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Cirsium obvallatum

No common English name — the scientific name is given

Genus Cirsium. Family Asteraceae.

Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 1
Cirsium obvallatum. 22.08.2009.
Photo: Николая Голубева

Description

A perennial plant 100 to 150 cm tall with a knotty oblique rhizome. The stems are ascending, shortly branched above, ribbed and curly-haired. The leaves are ovate-oblong, sinuately pinnately divided, bright green above, curly-haired along the veins beneath, with yellow spines of 5 to 7 mm. The uppermost leaves surround the involucre like a veil. The flower heads are solitary or clustered in twos and threes, the florets whitish. It flowers from July to September and grows in the subalpine belt among tall herbs and on mountain pastures.
After the „Flora of the USSR“ (reproduced at Plantarium)

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Photographs

Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 2
Cirsium obvallatum. 07.09.2009.
Photo: Владислава Куропаткина
Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 3
Cirsium obvallatum. 08.08.2006.
Photo: Александра Иванова
Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 4
Cirsium obvallatum. Top of a flowering plant. 29.09.2007.
Photo: Максима Зайцева
Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 5
Cirsium obvallatum. 29.09.2007.
Photo: Максима Зайцева
Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 6
Cirsium obvallatum.
Photo: Александра Лебедева
Cirsium obvallatum — Photographs 7
Cirsium obvallatum. Top of a flowering plant. August.
Photo: Сергея Аревшатяна

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