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§1 Plant
Cirsium texanum Buckley
vernacular Texas thistle — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Cirsium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 88 counties across 2 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 88 counties across 2 states/territories.
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 86 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Aransas 48007
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Baylor 48023
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Childress 48075
- Coke 48081
- Collin 48085
- Coryell 48099
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Dallas 48113
- Delta 48119
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Falls 48145
- Fisher 48151
- Freestone 48161
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hays 48209
- Henderson 48213
- Hidalgo 48215
- Houston 48225
- Jackson 48239
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Lampasas 48281
- Lee 48287
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- Martin 48317
- Mason 48319
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Midland 48329
- Mills 48333
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Robertson 48395
- Rockwall 48397
- Runnels 48399
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CITE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3113276 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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