Plants Profile for Cirsium undulatum (wavyleaf thistle)

General Information
Symbol:	CIUN
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Asteraceae
Duration:	Biennial Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	CAN N L48 N
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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Patrick J. Alexander. Usage Requirements.

©Jeff McMillian. Provided by Almost Eden. United States, KS. Usage Requirements.

©Robin R. Buckallew. United States, OK, Edmond. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 550. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Asterales
Family	Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae – Aster family
Genus	Cirsium Mill. – thistle
Species	Cirsium undulatum (Nutt.) Spreng. – wavyleaf thistle

Subordinate Taxa

The Plants Database includes the following 2 subspecies of Cirsium undulatum . Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles.

Native

Introduced

Native and Introduced

Distribution of <i>Cirsium undulatum</i> (Nutt.) Spreng. var. <i>tracyi</i> (Rydb.) S.L. Welsh

Cirsium undulatum var. tracyi
Tracy's thistle

Distribution of <i>Cirsium undulatum</i> (Nutt.) Spreng. var. <i>undulatum </i>

Cirsium undulatum var. undulatum
wavyleaf thistle

Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Arkansas Cirsium thistle Noxious weed
California wavyleaf thistle A list (noxious weeds)
Iowa Cirsium thistle Primary noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information
Cirsium Cirsium undulatum gray thistle wavyleaf thistle This plant and the related entity italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
NE&GP	Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe,and M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

Interpreting Wetland Status

North America
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	FACU
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	FAC
Great Plains	FACU
Midwest	FACU
Northcentral & Northeast	FACU
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU