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Cirsium edule var. wenatchense

Common Name: Wenatchee Thistle
ENDEMIC

This is one of three C. edule varieties.

Note single flower head at top of stem, only moderate webbed hair (arachnoid) below flower (Involucres) and leaves spreading flat. Found only in the Wenatchee Mtns. Likes wet soils.

east Central Cascades (Wenatchee Mtn.)
TRAIL: Lake Ingalls
HABITAT: wet, open rocky, subalpine
ELEVATION: 1,915 meters (6,285 feet)
BLOOM TIME: 01-AUG
Cirsium edule var. wenatchense
Cirsium edule var. wenatchense		 Cirsium edule var. wenatchense
Cirsium edule var. wenatchense		 Cirsium edule var. wenatchense
Cirsium edule var. wenatchense

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