South African Purple Thistle is a most ornamental winter hardy, long-lived perennial with a dense basal rosette of long, wavy, dark green, glossy spiny leaves and upright, thick stems crowned by several showy, ...
Purple Thistle, Soft Thistle, Thistle,Purple
Species:
Cirsium carolinianum ...
The majestic purple thistle-like honey-scented flowers of this stately cardoon are held above clumps of magnificent deeply cut silvery-green leaves.
Purple Thistle [English]: Cirsium horridulum
Purple Thistle [English]: Cirsium carolinianum
Purple Thorn-Apple [English]: Datura stramonium
Purple Thorn-Apple [English]: Datura stramonium stramonium ...
It is a bold plant, standing rigidly erect to a height of 5 or 6 feet, with large heart-shaped leaves and purple Thistle-like flower heads, wrapped in overlapping bracts.
The weed portrait above is Centauria sp., commonly called Knapweed, related to bachelor buttons in the same family as & asters, though having a flower that looks like a purple thistle.
Sprinkle on salads, steak and fish.
Lemon Balm has bright, furry, deeply-veined leaves and insignificant creamy white flowers.
Chives have slender, grass like leaves and tiny, purple thistle-like flowers.
 See also: Thistle, Green, Artichokes, Aster, Striped Maple
  
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