Image of Mojave thistle
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Description:
Leaf: +- densely tomentose, especially abaxially; proximal 1.5--6 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 1--2 pairs of coarse teeth or 2 lobes, main spines 3--20 mm; middle and distal smaller, narrower, conspicuously decurrent as spiny wings, distal-most much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 4--30 mm.Leaf: +- densely tomentose, especially abaxially; proximal 1.5--6 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 1--2 pairs of coarse teeth or 2 lobes, main spines 3--20 mm; middle and distal smaller, narrower, conspicuously decurrent as spiny wings, distal-most much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 4--30 mm.
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- Asteraceae (composite family)
- Cirsium (thistle)
- Cirsium mohavense (Mojave thistle)
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