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Cirsium nuttallii DC.

Asteraceae · Texas, Alabama +7

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

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Summary

Cirsium nuttallii, called Nuttall's thistle, is a North American species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The species is native to the coastal plain of the southeastern and south-central United States, from eastern Texas to southeastern Virginia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cirsium nuttallii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3113266 (Carduus nuttallii (DC.) Pollard, 3 records), 3113267 (Cnicus nuttallii (DC.) A.Gray, 1 record). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeTexas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3113266 (Carduus nuttallii (DC.) Pollard): Kew's file holds it as Carduus nuttallii (DC.) Pollard (synonym under Cirsium nuttallii DC.); 3 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 3113267 (Cnicus nuttallii (DC.) A.Gray): Kew's file holds it as Cnicus nuttallii (DC.) A.Gray (synonym under Cirsium nuttallii DC.); 1 record, from GBIF's download.

Other Cirsium 56 in the reference

Cirsium acaulon Cirsium acaulon Dwarf Thistle Photo: CC BY, Franck CabotCirsium alsophilum Cirsium alsophilum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Tony KMCirsium altissimum Cirsium altissimum Roadside thistle Photo: CC BY, hr_dragonflyCirsium arisanense Cirsium arisanense Alishan thistle Photo: CC BY, Rick ChouCirsium arizonicum Cirsium arizonicum Arizona thistle Photo: CC BY, Parker James LloydCirsium arvense Cirsium arvense Creeping thistle Photo: CC BY, Arthur WhitingCirsium brevicaule Cirsium brevicaule Okinawa Thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedCirsium brevistylum Cirsium brevistylum Clustered thistle Photo: CC0, author not statedCirsium canum Cirsium canum Queen Anne's thistle Photo: CC BY, Анна МитрошенковаCirsium carniolicum Cirsium carniolicum Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCirsium carolinianum Cirsium carolinianum Soft thistle Photo: CC BY, Nathan AaronCirsium cymosum Cirsium cymosum Peregrine thistle Photo: CC0, author not stated all 57 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Carduus nuttallii; Carduus virginianus; Cnicus glaber; Cnicus nuttallii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
DC.
Native to
Texas, Alabama, Florida +6
Wild records
3 in range · 0 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Cirsium nuttallii DC. (plant_name_id 3042138), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records of GBIF's key 3113266, Carduus nuttallii (DC.) Pollard (Kew's file holds it as Carduus nuttallii (DC.) Pollard (synonym under Cirsium nuttallii DC.)): the GBIF download; 1 record of GBIF's key 3113267, Cnicus nuttallii (DC.) A.Gray (Kew's file holds it as Cnicus nuttallii (DC.) A.Gray (synonym under Cirsium nuttallii DC.)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 195753-1, POWO 195753-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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