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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cnicus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cnicus

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Genus  Cnicus L. pub. (1753) common name: cnicus

Named members of the Genus Cnicus

1	Species  amplifolius Greene syn. Cirsium andrewsii
2	Species  arizonicus Gray syn. Cirsium arizonicum var. arizonicum
3	Species  benedictus L. common name: blessed thistle, holy thistle
4	Species  breweri Gray
	5    Varietas  vaseyi Gray syn. Cirsium hydrophilum var. vaseyi
6	Species  calcareus M.E. Jones syn. Cirsium calcareum
7	Species  drummondii (Torr. & Gray) Gray
	8    Varietas  acaulescens Rydb. syn. Cirsium tioganum var. tioganum
9	Species  ochrocentrus (Gray) Gray syn. Cirsium ochrocentrum
10	Species  parryi Gray syn. Cirsium parryi ssp. parryi
11	Species  tioganus Congd. syn. Cirsium tioganum var. tioganum
12	Species  undulatus Gray
	13    Varietas  megacephalus Gray syn. Cirsium undulatum var. undulatum
14	Species  wheeleri Gray syn. Cirsium wheeleri

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.