Global InformationCirsium vinaceum information
| Cirsium vinaceum | |
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Conservation status
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 Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Cirsium |
| Species: | C. vinaceum
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| Binomial name | |
| Cirsium vinaceum (Woot. & Standl.) Woot. & Standl.
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Carduus vinaceus Wooton & Standl. | |
Cirsium vinaceum is a rare species of thistle known by the common name Sacramento Mountains thistle. It is endemic to Otero County, New Mexico, in the United States, where it is known only from the Sacramento Mountains.[3][4] The plant can be found in six canyon systems in a southern section of this mountain range spanning about 32 kilometers.[5][6] It is rare because it is limited to a specific type of mountain wetland which is both naturally uncommon and threatened by a number of forces.[5] The plant was federally listed as threatened in 1987.[7]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ The Plant List, Cirsium vinaceum (Wooton & Standl.) Wooton & Standl.
- ^ Cirsium vinaceum. The Nature Conservancy.
- ^ Cirsium vinaceum. Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine Center for Plant Conservation.
- ^ a b USFWS. Cirsium vinaceum Five-year Review. August, 2010.
- ^ Cirsium vinaceum. New Mexico Rare Plants.
- ^ USFWS. Final rule to determine Cirsium vinaceum (Sacramento Mountain Thistle) to be threatened species. Federal Register June 16, 1987.