UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0143574
UCR-BPS-191598
UCR-191598
Carduus pycnocephalus L.
Asteraceae
T.B. Salvato
3445
2008-05-05
2008-5-5
United States, California, San Diego, c. 10 mi NE of San Diego near Santee, west of Santee Lakes and north of Mast Boulevard, near and southwest of the electrical substation
32.85333 -117.01278
40 meters (131ft)
Non-native grassland on disturbed dry hills and alluvial slopes with occasional patches of coastal sage shrub and a few persisting planted eucalypts and pepper trees.
Flowering & Fruiting
Uncommon annual in rocky depression on steep slope; flowers magenta.