Cirsium helenioides, the melancholy thistle, is an Asian and Arctic species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The species is native to Greenland (but considered extinct from Greenland since 1960), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Xinjiang and Kazakhstan.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapTropicos, Cirsium grahamii A. Gray
Cirsium helenioides is a perennial plant herb up to 120 cm (48 inches) tall, usually not branched, blooming only once before dying. Leaves are green on top, woolly underneath, with thin spines along the edges. There is one flower head per plant, with purple (occasionally white) disc florets but no ray florets.Melancholy thistle, Flora of North America, Cirsium helenioides (L.) HillNaturgate, Melancholy Thistle Cirsium helenioidesFlora of China, 堆心蓟 dui xin ji, Cirsium helenioides (Linnaeus) HillPlantarium, Плантариум, Cirsium helenioides (L.) Hill Описание таксона , in Russian with photos
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External links Gesamtverzeichnis des Herbariums besteht aus drei Spezialverzeichnissen: Cirsium helenioides, Verschiedenblättrige Kratzdistel photo Flowers in Sweden, Cirsium helenioides, SE: Brudborste, DE: Verschiedenblättrige Kratzdistel, NL: Ongelijkbladige distel, UK: Melancholy Thistle in Swedish with photos Slowlife, Photo Gallery / Flowers: Swedish Lapland, Cirsium helenioides Melancholy thistle Zweifarbige Kratzdistel Borsttistel, Brudborste Jyväskylän yliopiston avoin yliopisto, Veikko Salonen & Petri Heinonen, Huopaohdake (Cirsium helenioides) in Finnish with photos