| Name | Cirsium brevifolium Nuttall |
| Authorship | Nuttall |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Cirsium Miller |
| Citation | 1841 (2 Apr 1841) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 7: 421 |
| Holdings | 24 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cirsium brevifolium Nuttall |
| Identification made in | [no date] (24) |