Cirsium occidentale venustum Red Thistle

Identification

Cirsium occidentale venustum Red Thistle and Venus Thistle.

Gallery

Cirsium proteanum

Cirsium proteanum, Hummingbird on Venus thistle

Cirsium proteanum, a Monarch butterfly on the red thistle

Cirsium proteanum with Costa hummingbird attached. More than friends?

Hummingbird on Cirsium proteanum, Red Thistle

Cirsium proteanum, fuzzy ball

Cirsium occidentale venustum, Venus thistle

Monarch and Checkerspot butterflies on a Venus Thistle - grid24_3

Cirsium occidentale venustum

A Dogface butterfly on Cirsium occidentale venustum

Description

Venus Thistle is a rather large, tomentose, ( covered with short, soft, matted, white hairs) biennial (sometimes annual) thistle with 1-2" bright red flowers. Very showy. Can grow to six feet tall. Sometimes it will live for one season, sometimes for 2-3.
It will generally die after it produces a full flower show. Prefers gravelly sand to loam. Rainfall 10-20 inches/year in winter. Hummingbirds and adult swallowtail butterflies are attracted to the flowers. Synonym: Cirsium proteanum .

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Characteristics

Cirsium occidentale venustum Red Thistle tolerates sand and deer.
Cirsium occidentale venustum Red Thistle is great for a bird garden and a butterfly garden.
Cirsium occidentale venustum Red Thistle's foliage color is silver and type is deciduous.
Cirsium occidentale venustum Red Thistle's flower color is red and is edible.

ph:	6.00 to 7.20
usda:	7 to 10
height[m]:	1.00 to 2.00
width[m]:	0.20 to 0.30
rainfall[cm]:	32.00 to 82.00

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