The Pitcher’s thistle is a native thistle that grows on the open sand dunes and low open beach ridges along the shorelines of Lakes Michigan, Superior, and Huron. It is now found in Indiana, …

Cirsium pitcheri, sometimes called Pitcher's thistle or dune thistle, is a species of thistle native to sand dune shorelines along the upper Great Lakes. It is native to Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, …

Feb 9, 1992 · Pitcher's thistle is endemic to sand dune systems of the western Great Lakes. This thistle required 70% open sand which restricts their habitat to sand dunes where wind …

Pitcher’s thistle can be identified by its deeply toothed, wooly leaves and by the presence of spines at the tips of each point on the leaf. The wooly coating gives the leaves and stems their …

Jun 19, 2015 · The Pitcher’s thistle is a native thistle that grows on the beaches and grassland dunes along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. The silvery and spiny-leaved plant thrives on …

is a monocarpic, perennial, herbaceous plant endemic to the Great Lakes region. Pitcher’s thistle grows on open sand dunes and cobble shores with vegetative cover of 30% or less. …

Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcher) is a native thistle that grows on beaches and grassland dunes along the shorelines of Lakes Michigan, Superior, and Huron. It has been listed as a …

Perennial thistle of open Great Lakes dunes; leaves bluish-green with few spines, densely covered by white-woolly hairs, forming only a basal rosette when young; flower heads …

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Sep 20, 2022 · I worked closely with the Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri), a threatened thistle native to the coastal freshwater dunes of the Great Lakes. Its classification, “threatened,” …