The following species in the flowering plant genus Cirsium, the plume thistles, are accepted by Plants of the World Online.[1] A 2022 molecular study reassigned many species to other genera, but Cirsium remains a speciose genus.[2]
Cirsium × vivantiiL.Villar, Segarra, J.López, Pérez-Coll. & Catalán
Cirsium vlassovianumFisch. ex DC.
Cirsium vulgare(Savi) Ten.
Cirsium wakasugianumKadota
Cirsium waldsteiniiRouy
Cirsium wallichiiDC.
Cirsium × wankeliiReichardt
Cirsium welwitschiiCoss.
Cirsium × wettsteiniiPetr.
Cirsium wheeleriPetr.
Cirsium × wiedermanniiKhek
Cirsium × winklerianumČelak.
Cirsium × woodwardii(H.C.Watson) Nyman
Cirsium × woronowiiPetr.
Cirsium wrightiiA.Gray
Cirsium yachiyotakashimaeKadota
Cirsium yakusimenseMasam.
Cirsium yamauchiiKadota
Cirsium yatsu-alpicolaKadota & Y.Amano
Cirsium yezoalpinumH.Koidz. ex Kadota & S.Umezawa
Cirsium yezoense(Maxim.) Makino
Cirsium yoshidaeKadota
Cirsium yuki-uenoanumKadota
Cirsium yuzawaeKadota
Cirsium zamoranenseRzed.
Cirsium zawoenseKadota
^"Cirsium Mill". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^Del Guacchio, Emanuele; Bureš, Petr; Iamonico, Duilio; Carucci, Francesca; De Luca, Daniele; Zedek, František; Caputo, Paolo (2022). "Towards a monophyletic classification of Cardueae: Restoration of the genus Lophiolepis (= Cirsium p.p.) and new circumscription of Epitrachys". Plant Biosystems. 156 (5): 1269–1290. doi:10.1080/11263504.2022.2131924. S2CID 252700781.
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