Cirsium parryi

C. parryi formally contained ssp. C. p. ssp. mogollonicum. C. parryi ssp. mogollonicum is now considered a synonym of the full species C. parryi (see FNA, Tropicos, ITIS, IPNI). According to Flora of North America (eFloras, 2011), "Cirsium parryi ranges from the Rocky Mountains of central and southern Colorado south to the San Francisco Peaks, Pinaleno Mountains, and White Mountains of Arizona, and the Mogollon and Sacramento ranges of New Mexico. Within this broad range several minor variants have been recognized at the species level. The features that supposedly distinguish C. gilense, C. inornatum, and C. pallidum vary widely and inconsistently through the range of species. In like manner the characters used by Schaack and Goodwin to distinguish subsp. mogollonicum fall well within the variation of the species as a whole and do not seem adequate to separate subsp. mogollonicum from the rest of C. parryi at any taxonomic rank. Cirsium parryi hybridizes with C. grahamii in Arizona and C. canescens in Colorado."

Ranges from the San Francisco Peaks, Mogollon Rim to White Mountains, and Pinaleno Mountains. Also occurs from the Rocky Mountains of central and southern Colorado, and the Mogollon and Sacramento ranges in New Mexico. Hybridizes with C. grahamii in Pinaleno Mountains in Arizona.

Common in montane meadow habitat (2100-3700 m) in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.

In Arizona ranges from San Francisco Peaks, Mogollon Rim, White Mountains, and Pinaleno Mountains. Found from the Rocky Mountains of central and southern Colorado, and the Mogollon and Sacramento ranges of New Mexico.

Common throughout its range including the Rocky Mountains of central and southern Colorado, the Mogollon and Sacremento ranges in New Mexico, and the San Francisco Peaks, Mogollon Rim, White Mountains, and Pinaleno Mountains of Arizona.