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Separate cypselae. Onopordum acanthium (cotton thistle, Scotch (or Scottish) thistle) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.It is native to Europe and Western Asia from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan, and north to central Scandinavia, and widely naturalised elsewhere, [1] [2] [3] with especially large populations present in the United States and Australia.
A number of other names are used in other areas or have been used in the past, including: Canadian thistle, lettuce from hell thistle, California thistle, [10] corn thistle, cursed thistle, field thistle, green thistle, hard thistle, perennial thistle, prickly thistle, setose thistle, small-flowered thistle, way thistle, and stinger-needles ...
Milk thistle flowerhead Cirsium arizonicum, showing arachnoid cobwebbiness on stems and leaves, with ants attending aphids that might be taking advantage of the shelter. Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp spikes on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all ...
The long-in-the-works, oft-delayed pot shop boasts the Tri-State’s first “consumption lounge,” which will permit on-site use, much like the coffeeshops of The Netherlands.. Customers have to ...
Onopordum illyricum is a species of thistle known by the common name Illyrian thistle, [1] or Illyrian cottonthistle. [2] It is native to southwestern Europe, but has been introduced into Australia and California, where it has become a noxious weed.
Kali tragus, the Russian thistle Leaves of a mature plant coming into flower, each leaf with one flower and two bracts in its axil. Salsola tragus is an annual forb.In habit, the young plant is erect, but it grows into a rounded clump of branched, tangled stems, each one up to about a metre long.
Spear thistle is designated an "injurious weed" under the UK Weeds Act 1959, [19] and a noxious weed in Australia [18] [20] [21] and in nine US states. [22] Spread is only by seed, not by root fragments as in the related creeping thistle C. arvense. It is best cleared from land by hoeing and deep cutting of the taproot before seeds mature ...
Solanum rostratum is a species of nightshade (genus Solanum) that is native to the United States and northern and central Mexico. [2] Common names include buffalobur nightshade, [3] buffalo-bur, [4] spiny nightshade, Colorado bur, Kansas thistle, bad woman, Mexican thistle, and Texas thistle.