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§1 Plant
Cirsium altissimum (L.) Hill
vernacular tall thistle — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Cirsium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 215 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 215 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Carroll 05015
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Cross 05037
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Logan 05083
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Monroe 05095
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Newton 05101
- Perry 05105
- Phillips 05107
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Sebastian 05131
- Stone 05137
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Bartow 13015
- Chattooga 13055
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Clayton 13063
- Dawson 13085
- Elbert 13105
- Forsyth 13117
- Fulton 13121
- Gordon 13129
- Hall 13139
- Harris 13145
- Hart 13147
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jones 13169
- Lee 13177
- Lumpkin 13187
- Morgan 13211
- Murray 13213
- Oconee 13219
- Oglethorpe 13221
- White 13311
Kentucky view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Butler 21031
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Carter 21043
- Clark 21049
- Edmonson 21061
- Floyd 21071
- Grayson 21085
- Hardin 21093
- Harlan 21095
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Lewis 21135
- Meade 21163
- Montgomery 21173
- Perry 21193
- Rowan 21205
- Warren 21227
Louisiana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Avery 37011
- Buncombe 37021
- Burke 37023
- Cabarrus 37025
- Catawba 37035
- Cherokee 37039
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Gaston 37071
- Haywood 37087
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Lincoln 37109
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Mitchell 37121
- Moore 37125
- Polk 37149
- Rowan 37159
- Rutherford 37161
- Surry 37171
- Swain 37173
- Transylvania 37175
- Yancey 37199
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Montgomery 42091
- Somerset 42111
- Venango 42121
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 20 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CIAL2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8078803 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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