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§1 Plant
Cirsium pumilum Spreng.
vernacular pasture thistle — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Cirsium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 233 counties across 15 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 233 counties across 15 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Fulton 36035
- Hamilton 36041
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 55 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Brunswick 51025
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Giles 51071
- Goochland 51075
- Greene 51079
- Halifax 51083
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Highland 51091
- Lancaster 51103
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince William 51153
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Surry 51181
- Warren 51187
West Virginia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Barbour 54001
- Berkeley 54003
- Braxton 54007
- Brooke 54009
- Doddridge 54017
- Gilmer 54021
- Grant 54023
- Hampshire 54027
- Hardy 54031
- Harrison 54033
- Jackson 54035
- Jefferson 54037
- Lewis 54041
- Mason 54053
- Mineral 54057
- Monongalia 54061
- Morgan 54065
- Pendleton 54071
- Pocahontas 54075
- Preston 54077
- Randolph 54083
- Ritchie 54085
- Tucker 54093
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CIPU4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3112698 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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