Thistle
Canadian thistle and related thistle weeds come in a wide range of varieties. These are perennial plants and they will recur each year if not taken care of properly.
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popular name for many spiny and usually weedy plants, but especially applied to members of the family Asteraceae (aster family) that have spiny leaves and often showy heads of purple, rose, white, ...
Thistles belong to a broad genus from the Northern Hemisphere and most species are usually regarded as weedy. However some species are easily controlled, not aggresive and have beautiful terminal lilac flower heads.
Milk thistle
Milk thistle information
Milk thistle - Silybum marianum (in the Asteraceae or Aster family) ...
Star Thistle, Knapweed, Persian Cornflower
Easy to grow, this member of the daisy family is good for borders or wild gardens. Most annual types are grown for their frilly, cuttable flowers, and perennials for their felty, gray foliage.
Milk thistle health benefits (Silybum marianum Fam. Compositae)
Traditionally: grown in peasant gardens. The roots, the leaves and the fruits have been used in popular medicine for liver and spleen conditions.
Bull Thistle
Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.
Synonym: C. lanceolatum
Family: Asteraceae, Aster or Composite
Genus: Cirsium ...
Spear Thistle
Characteristics
A very prickly thistle indeed, it has deep green leaves which have pale undersides.
Globe thistle
Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue'
Genus: Echinops
Species: bannaticus
Cultivar: 'Taplow Blue' ...
Canada Thistle
Cirsium arvense
Canada thistle is the most common thistle in New England. It is distinguished by having many small flowerheads.
Thistles will soon monopolize a large extent of country to the extinction of other plants, as they have done in parts of the American prairies, in Canada and British Columbia, and as they did in Australia, ...
Thistles - Integrated Pest Management Manual
DOI. National Park Service.
Identification/Description; Impacts; Life Cycle; Dispersion; Controls; Special Note: Excellent references section ...
Canada thistle is declared a "noxious weed" throughout the U.S. and has long been recognized as a major agricultural pest, costing tens of millions of dollars in direct crop losses annually and additional millions costs for control.
Pitcher's Thistle grows only on shorelines or sand dunes of the Great Lakes in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada. It is restricted to the dunes of Lakes Michigan and Huron and a few dune sites along Lake Superior.
The spear thistle is a notable native wildflower with long pointed leaves with very long terminal point and jagged triangular lobes on its length. They are all viciously spined.
American Star-Thistle, Basket Flower
Scientific Name: Centaurea americana Nutt.
Synonym:
Family: Asteraceae ...
Asteraceae / Aster Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach a height of 2.5 Meters (8 feet ) .
Leaves: The leaves are alternate.
There are two species of sowthistle in Florida, both non-native. Common sowthistle, native to Europe, is a frequent invader of disturbed sites nearly throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). It flowers from spring through summer.
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Onopordum acanthium (Cotton Thistle, Scotch Thistle) ...
Bull thistle (shown above)
Zone: 2
Since being introduced from Eurasia, the bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) has firmly established itself in fields and waste places and along roadways throughout Canada.
Blessed Thistle
Cnicus benedictus
MEDICINAL: Blessed Thistle is used to strengthen the heart, and is useful in all remedies for lung, kidney, and liver problems. It is also used as a brain food for stimulating the memory.
The thistlelike blooms resemble 4th of July fireworks â€- great for bouquets.
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The thistle funnel is filled with water. When the tap is turned on water will enter the already full gas-jar and fill the long horizontal arm of the bent tube.
Blue thistle, Viper's bugloss Blue weed[3]
Echium vulgare Echium vulgare is most widely known, though there are about 60 additional species.
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Texas Thistle, Southern Thistle, Thistle,Texas
Species:
Cirsium texanum ...
Globe thistle a colorful and shapely choice for perennial beds and borders.
Globe Thistle
Echinops ritro
2 to 4'
3'
Sun; prefers moist well-drained soil; Piedmont and Midstate.
Canada Thistle spreads easily by both seed and root and it is, therefore, very difficult to exterminate. Cutting down this Thistle only brings up five times as many root sprouts as before.
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'Arctic Glow'
Globe Thistle
"When on the breath of autumn breeze,
From pastures dry and brown,
Goes floating like an idle thought
The fair white thistle-down." -Mary Howit
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Borne in spherical, thistle-like heads around 1" diameter, the individual flowers are a greenish-white and are surrounded by larger pointed bracts. They have been observed blooming from 2 July through 15 September in the Chicago area.
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Globe Thistle
Veitch's Blue Globe Thistle Echinops ritro ‘Veitch's Blue'
Glorybower
Harlequin Clerodendrum trichotomum
Glory Bush
Glory Bush, Pincess Flower, Lasiandra Tibouchina urvilleana
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Blue globe thistle, small globe thistle (Echinops ritro)
Blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus)
Blue lace flower (Trachymene coerulea, Didiscus coeruleus)
Blue water iris (Iris versicolor) ...
In the American button-bush the heads are globular, in some species of teazel elliptical, while in scabious and in composite plants, as sunflower, dandelion, thistle, centaury and marigold, they are somewhat hemispherical, with a flattened, ...
Herbs: Thistles (Cirsium spp.), Horsetails (Equisetum spp.),
Ground Covers: Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) ...
Onopordum Acanthium ‘Cotton Thistle, Scotch Thistle'
Borders should be dramatic as well as interesting, and this biennial giant thistle, with its silver leaves and tall stems topped with bristling flowers, has impact aplenty.
Globe Thistle
They form clumps of deeply divided, spiny leaves, which are gray-green above and fuzzy-white beneath.
It is topped with round, purple, thistlelike flowers in midsummer. Cardoon can reach up to 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide.
Nombres relacionados: Asteraceae (familia), Benediktenkraut (alemán), Bitter thistle (inglés), Bitterweed (inglés), Blessed carduus (inglés), Blessed thistle (inglés), Carbenia benedicta (sinónimo), Card sant (catalán), Cardo bendito (castellano), ...
Grown primarily in warm climates, artichokes provide delicious gourmet-quality, tender thistles for eating and are also a beautiful garden feature.
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Tumbleweed is also known as Russian thistle, and is a member of the Goosefoot family. It is a round, bushy, much-branched plant growing 1 to 3-1/2 feet high. The branches are slender, and soft when young, woody when mature. The leaves are alternate.
Salsola (also known as Tumbleweed, Saltwort or Russian thistle) is a genus of herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and small trees in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Africa, Asia, and Europe; they typically grow on flat, ...
The Globe Artichoke, Cynara cardunculus is a perennial thistle originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean. The edible portion of the buds consists primarily of the fleshy lower portions of the bracts and the base, known as the "heart.
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Common name(s): Bear's breeches, Mountain thistle
Genus of about 30 species of perennials from dry, rocky sites, mostly in the Mediterranean. Acanthus may growing up to 6 ft. They are vigorous plants with with bold, striking foliage and flowers.
The flowers are borne from thistle or artichoke type buds and open brilliant yellow. These plants are attractive to bees and butterflies, and are good cut flowers.
Cirsium scariosum. Elk Thistle. Elk thistle is a native plant usually found at high elevations.
Arctium minus. Lesser Burdock. An introduced weed with an edible taproot.
Arctium minus. Lesser Burdock.
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The flowers open from buds which are very thistle like and it is tolerant of a wide range of sites and conditions, but particularly likes a more moisture retentive soil with lots of sunshine.
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A tall flowering plant related to the thistle family of plants that is native to Mediterranean regions and now grown in a variety of locations throughout the world. Referred to ...
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In 1629, an English herbalist, John Parkinson, called an acanthus a thistle in his writings. "This prickly thistle hath divers long greenish leaves lying on the ground..." ...
There have orange-yellow rootsThistle have long tap roots. You will have to remove the whole root otherwise it will grow back again Willowherb are tall attractive weeds but they spread like mad. Short-fruited WillowherbWillowherb flower ...
Argemone mexicana. Mexican Poppy, or stinging thistle and queen thistle, it flowers in many Bermuda areas. Weed.
This clump-forming perennial produces branched stems crowned with thistle-like flowers in summer.
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Flower stems shoot skyward in summer and are topped with thistle-like bluish silver flowers. An architectural addition to the perennial border or meadow.
Comments: Prefers cool temperatures; biennial grown as an annual; not as aggressive as most thistles; may reseed; good cut flower; does best with cool summers
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Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a cool season vegetable of the Chenopodium family that is most closely related botanically to beets, Russian thistle and the common weed lamb's quarter.
TEETH
Teeth are the jagged edges on some leaves, like those of thistles and hawthorne.
This plant is ideal to use in areas of the garden that lack colour towards the end of summer. The dark ferny leaves and thistle like flowers make for a very striking show.
 See also: Aster, Pink, Daisy, Violet, Sunflower
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