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§1 Plant — species · Asteraceae

Cirsium eatonii (A. Gray) B.L. Rob.

vernacular Eaton's thistle

USDA
CIEA
GBIF
3113381
Rank
species
Eaton's thistle (Cirsium eatonii)
Platephotograph · Jennifer AckerfieldCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

§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.

§4Montana distribution

Recorded in 5 of 56 Montana counties.

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CIEA ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3113381 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25

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