| Name | Cirsium altissimum (Linnaeus) Sprengel |
| Authorship | (Linnaeus) Sprengel |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Cirsium Miller |
| Contains | Cirsium altissimum var. biltmoreanum Petrak |
| Citation | 1826 Syst. Veg., ed. 13. 3: 373 |
| Holdings | 116 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cirsium altissimum (Linnaeus) Sprengel |
| Identification made in | [no date] (98), 1987 (1), 1997 (17) |