| Name | Cirsium ochrocentrum var. townsendii Petrak |
| Authorship | Petrak |
| Rank | Variety |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Cirsium ochrocentrum A. Gray |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:59102-2 |
| Citation | 1917 Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 35: 420 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Cirsium ochrocentrum var. townsendii Petrak |
| Identification made in | 1960 (1), 1988 (1) |