Asteraceae
Carduus occidentalis
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Carduus
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Common names
By language (1)
- Spanish
- Cirsium occidentale, Cirsium occidentale subsp. eu-occidentale, Cnicus lilacinus, Cnicus occidentalis
Synonyms
- Carduus occidentalis var. occidentalis
Photos

Photo: Wing-Chi Poon, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.