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Cirsium arvense

Type: Species | Edit History      Plant ID - 36335


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Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Cirsium
Species: Cirsium arvense
 
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  • Drought Tolerant
  • Invasive
  • Weed
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Height (Maximum) edit
  • 2 to 5 feet (60 cm to 1 1/2 m)
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Flowering Start edit
  • August
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Leaf Colour edit
  • Green - Medium
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  • Full Sun
Soil Types edit
  • Well-drained
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Bloom Colour edit
  • Pink
Wildlife Value edit
  • Bees
  • Bird - food (fruit/berries/insects/seeds)
  • Deer Resistant
  • Rabbit Resistant
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  • Seed
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Netty (13946) wrote on Jan 29 2009
Highly invasive, prickly weed. Each year, one plant can send out up to 6 meters of runners and female plants can release up to 40,000 seeds. They choke out other plants and release a substance that inhibits growth of nearby plants.

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Other names for this plant:
Carduus arvensis
Cirsium incanum
Cirsium setosum
Serratula arvensis



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