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Cirsium neomexicanum
Asteraceae
Height: Up to 6'
Leaves: 7" long and pinnately lobed. They are dark green, shiny and spiny.
Flowers/Fruit: In bloom March to September. Lavender, tiny and tubular. They are surrounded by long spine-tipped I>bracts, or modified leaves. The outer bracts point downward.
Form/Habitat: 3,000' to 7,000'. Mesas, foothills or plains in creosote bush communities.
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