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Elk thistle Cirsium scariosum

Image of meadow thistle

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Description: English: Elk thistle (Cirsium scariosum), showing the ground-hugging spiny leaves and cream-colored flowerheads. At 10,800ft in a boulder-field gully below the Dana Plateau near Tioga Pass, in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, Sierra Nevada mountains USA. Date: 30 July 2013, 15:39:57. Source: Own work. Author: Dcrjsr. Camera location37° 55′ 01.74″ N, 119° 13′ 57.8″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.917150; -119.232723.

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