Cirsium × scopolii (Cirsium erisithales × greimleri) is a hybrid between C. erisithales and C. greimleri. It is known from 48 herbarium specimens as of 2020.

Distribution

It is found almost throughout the range of C. greimleri.

Description

Traits are thoroughly mixed.

The description of Fritsch:

History

First identified on 13 July 1845 by Tommasini or more likely one of his collectors on Snežnik. But its first written mention dates to 1856. The first binary name published, C. × scopolii (1879), is a nomen nudum, which also applies to C. × scopolianum (1881), making the first currently valid name that published by Khek in 1908, whose investigation was sparked by recent publications.Fritsch 1906. "Cirsium pauciflorum Spr. Anfangs Juli 1905 übersendete mir Herr K. Pilhatsch aus den Judenburger Alpen blühende Exemplare von Cirsium pauciflorum Spr., sowie von den Hybriden dieser Art mit Cirsium Erisithales (L.) Scop., Cirsium palustre (L.) Scop. und Cirsium heterophyllum All."

See also List of Cirsium species

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