Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Cirsium erisithales, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced6 Differs from sources1 Source not recorded15 Not on the record4 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, POWO / WCVP (Kew)

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Jacq.) Scop.	(Jacq.) Scop. · POWO / WCVP (Kew) · Reported · 2026-10-11	Sourced
Bibliography	2(Hist. Nat.): 62	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1769	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Yellow thistle	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Family common name	Aster family	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Europe	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	80 cm	80 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 5 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 164, 251, 818, 898, 918	Sourced
Biological type	hemicryptophyte	hemicryptophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 164, 918	Sourced
Flower color	yellow	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Maximum height	empty	180 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 164, 251, 818, 898, 918	Not on the record
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Bloom months	jul, aug	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 164, 818, 918	Sourced
Ecology
Atmospheric humidity	7 / 9 · humid air	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Light	5 / 9 · half-shade	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Ph maximum	pH 7.5	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Ph minimum	pH 7	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Soil nutriments	6 / 9 · rather rich (meso-eutrophic)	2 / 9 · very poor (peroligotrophic) · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 242	Differs from sources
Soil salinity	0 / 9 · absent from saline soils	0 / 9 · absent from saline soils · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 242	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	42 cm	42 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 818	Sourced
Usda legacy
C n ratio	empty	13.8 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 228	Not on the record
Other
Soil ph indicator	—	8 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 242	Not on the record
Temperature indicator	—	5 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 242	Not on the record

Cirsium erisithales (Jacq.) Scop., 1769 35% complete

Yellow thistle

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