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Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. (Spear Thistle)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Cirsium vulgare In bud 23 June 2005 North Wiltshire England 6
Cirsium vulgare Plant 20 February 2005 North Wiltshire England 2
Cirsium vulgare Plant 27 July 2000 Berks England 6
Cirsium vulgare Plant 11 March 2000 Dorset England 3
Cirsium vulgare Plant 20 November 1999 North Wiltshire England 1
Cirsium vulgare Fasciated plant 17 July 1971 East Sussex England 1
Cirsium vulgare Plant 7 August 1970 East Sussex England 2

Suggested Literature

General Works

Redfern, M., 1968 The Natural History of Spear Thistle-heads

Cirsium vulgare may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cardueae
(“thistles”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cirsium vulgare:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces cichoracearum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Major Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia cnici - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by aecium Puccinia cnici - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
is foodplant of larva Larinus planus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
is foodplant of larva Rhinocyllus conicus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
is foodplant of larva Terellia serratulae - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
is parasitised by Erysiphe mayorii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Photos achene achene is galled by larva Urophora stylata - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland Major White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Acanthiophilus helianthi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Ensina sonchi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Tephritis cometa - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Tephritis conura - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Terellia tussilaginis - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland Rare White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Xyphosia miliaria - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos involucre involucre has sap sucked by adult Tingis cardui - Spear Thistle Lacebug (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Redfern, M., 1968
Photos involucre involucre has sap sucked by nymph Tingis cardui - Spear Thistle Lacebug (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Redfern, M., 1968
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia cnici - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous telium Puccinia cnici - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous telium Puccinia cnici-oleracei - Yarrow Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (upper surface) (windowed) windowed leaf (upper surface) is grazed by larva Lema cyanella - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007 [larvae dorsally carry a cover of excrement]
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Phytomyza autumnalis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza autumnalis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine long, distinctly greenish]
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Lema cyanella - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
Photos receptacle receptacle is galled by larva Urophora stylata - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland Major White, I.M., 1988
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Leptosphaeria macrospora - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by partly immersed pseudothecium Leptosphaeria purpurea - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Ophiobolus acuminatus - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Nodulosphaeria dolioloides - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, red stained (epidermis)) dead, red stained (epidermis) stem is decayed by immersed pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph Phoma rubella - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem? stem? may contain larva Apion carduorum - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Major Morris, M.G., 1990

Cirsium vulgare may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cirsium
(a genus of thistles)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Morris, M.G., 1990 Orthocerous Weevils
Redfern, M., 1968 The Natural History of Spear Thistle-heads
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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