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Pronunciation: SIR-see-um ok-si-den-TAY-lee ka-li-FOR-ni-kum
Common name: California thistle
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Habitat: Disturbed places and on dry slopes and fans below 7000' in coastal sage scrub, chaparral and southern oak woodland, mostly away from the immediate coast
Blooming period: April to July
Name derivations: 1) Cirsium 2) occidentale 3) californicum