Plants Profile for Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle)

General Information
Symbol:	CIVU
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Asteraceae
Duration:	Biennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	AK I CAN I HI I L48 I SPM I
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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Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, NV. Usage Requirements.

Patrick J. Alexander. 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: 549. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
CALA58	Carduus lanceolatus L.
CAVU4	Carduus vulgaris Savi
CILAH	Cirsium lanceolatum (L.) Scop. var. hypoleucum DC.
CILA8	Cirsium lanceolatum (L.) Scop., non Hill

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 vulgare (Savi) Ten. – bull thistle

Subordinate Taxa

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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
Colorado bull thistle B list (noxious weeds)
Iowa Cirsium thistle Primary noxious weed bull thistle Primary noxious weed
Maryland bull thistle Noxious weed
Minnesota bull thistle Prohibited noxious weed
New Mexico bull thistle Class B noxious weed
Oregon bull thistle "B" designated weed bull thistle Quarantine
Pennsylvania bull thistle, spear thistle Noxious weed
Washington bull thistle Class C noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information
Cirsium Cirsium vulgare bull thistle common thistle spear thistle Cirsium lanceolatum bull thistle This plant and the related entities and synonyms 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.
Cal-IPC	California Invasive Plant Council. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal-IPC Publication 2006-02 (1 February 2007). California Invasive Plant Council. Berkeley, California.
N'EAST	Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal,and J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York.
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.
SEEPPC	Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council. 1996. Invasive exotic pest plants in Tennessee (19 October 1999). Research Committee of the Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council. Tennessee.
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

Top Level Regions
Hawaii	FACU

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