''Cirsium durangense'', the Durango thistle , is

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species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The species is native to the State of

Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

in northwestern Mexico.Tropicos, ''Cirsium durangense'' (Greenm.) G.B. Ownbey
/ref> ''Cirsium durangense'' has pinnately lobed leaves with spines on the tips of the lobes. The leaves have a woolly covering when they are young but this disappears as the leaves mature.Greenman, Jesse More 1904. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 40: 51
as ''Cirsium ochrocentrum'' var. ''durangense''

References

durangense Flora of Durango Plants described in 1904 {{Cynareae-stub