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|accepted_name=Cirsium vinaceum
|accepted_authority=(Wooton & Standley) Wooton & Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|place=19: 751. 1915
|year=1915
}}
|common_names=Sacramento Mountains thistle
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carduus vinaceus
|authority=Wooton & Standley
|rank=species
|publication_title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication_place=16: 196. 1913
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Cirsium;Cirsium vinaceum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cirsium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cirsium vinaceum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 102, 131
|treatment_page=page 163
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 100–200 cm; creeping roots. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, (dark maroon), glabrous; branches several to many, stiffly ascending, distally nodding. <b>Leaves</b>: blades elliptic, 10–50 × 5–20 cm, 1–2 times pinnately lobed or divided, lobes lanceolate to ovate, main spines slender to stout, 3–10 mm, faces glossy green, glabrous; basal present at flowering, petiolate or winged-petiolate, divided nearly to midveins; proximal cauline winged-petiolate; mid and distal sessile, progressively reduced, less deeply lobed, bases auriculate-clasping; distalmost linear or lanceolate, bractlike, very spiny. <b>Heads</b> many, nodding, borne 1–few at branch tips, collectively forming open, paniculiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.5–15+ cm. <b>Involucres</b> (excluding spreading tips) broadly ovoid to hemispheric or campanulate, 2–3 × 2–3 cm, glabrous. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 8–10 series, strongly imbricate, (dark maroon, drying dark brown or blackish), ovate or lanceolate (outer) to linear-lanceolate (inner), abaxial faces with poorly developed glutinous ridge; outer and mid bases appressed, margins entire, apices spreading to reflexed, elongate, ovate to lanceolate, 5–20 mm, flattened, ciliolate, adaxially minutely villous with septate trichomes, spines slender, 1–3 mm; apices of inner flexuous, entire. <b>Corollas</b> rich rose-purple, 20–26 mm, tubes 4–5 mm, throats 7–10 mm, lobes 10–11 mm; style tips 2–2.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brown, ca. 5 mm, apical collars not differentiated; pappi (brown), 18–20 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer (May–Sep).
|habitat=Wet soil around calcareous springs and seeps, stream banks, montane meadows, coniferous forest margins
|elevation=2300–2900 m
|distribution=N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Cirsium vinaceum</i> is perhaps most closely related to <i>C. rydbergii</i>. Heads of <i>C. vinaceum</i> are actively visited by hummingbirds and by several kinds of bees (K. A. Burks 1994). Hybrids are known between <i>C. vinaceum</i> and <i>C. wrightii</i>.</p><!--
--><p><i>Cirsium vinaceum</i> is endemic to the Sacramento Mountains, Otero County. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Cirsium vinaceum
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) Wooton & Standley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carduus vinaceus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer (May–Sep).
|habitat=Wet soil around calcareous springs and seeps, stream banks, montane meadows, coniferous forest margins
|elevation=2300–2900 m
|distribution=N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1915
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Cirsium
|species=Cirsium vinaceum
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