| Author | Hooker & Arnott | |
| Distribution | A single collection is known, from ballast at the port of Wilmington, New Hanover County. The specimen is not at SERNEC, but probably at NY or GH.
Native of South America; in N.A. only in northwestern FL and NC. | |
| Abundance | Very rare. | |
| Habitat | Seaport ballast. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting July-October. | |
| Identification | Ballast Coyote-thistle is prostrate to erect, up to 1.5 feet tall. The basal and lower leaves are pinnately cleft into linear segments; middle and upper leaves are smaller. The heads grow singly in leaf axils, short-cylindric (6-12 mm long), gray-green, with linear sharp bracts at base. Flower color not noted. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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