| Taxon | Cirsium remotifolium var. odontolepis |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Family common name(s) | composite; composita; comp; aster; asterwort; asterworts; sunflower; daisy; dandelion |
| Genus common name(s) | cirsium; thistle; true thistle; plume thistle; plume-thistle |
| Species common name(s) | remote-leaved thistle; remote-leaf thistle; distant-leaf thistle; few-leaved thistle; few leaved thistle; few-leaf thistle; fewleaf thistle; weak thistle |
| |
| |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | fringed thistle, fringed-bract thistle are applied to multiple Cirsium taxa; white-thistle, whitethistle, white thistle are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| |
| Notes | Pacific is a proper name, so upper case preferable |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Cirsium amblylepis Petr.; Cirsium callilepis (Greene) Jeps., including var. pseudocarlinoides (Petr.) J.T. Howell |
