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Bull thistle starts out life as a prickly ground-hugging rosette that, in the summer, puts out tall, equally spiny stalks topped with purple flowers. Later, fluffy white seed heads form.

The sow thistle has quite a succulent stem when it flowers, and the foliage oozes a milky sap when cut. It is most likely to be confused with a closely related species called prickly sow thistle ...

Winged thistle is found throughout New Zealand, though evidently not in Westland. In the vegetative stage, the winged thistle has the typical prickly rosette of a thistle species, though it tends to ...

At first, Clare ran Prickly Thistle, her clothing brand, from her shed, commissioning local mills to produce small runs of her tartan designs. Then she set her sights on a tartan mill of her own. With ...

European marsh thistle frequently invades fens, wetlands, and disturbed sites such as roadside ditches. Identifying features include: typically grows 2-7 feet tall leaves are alternate with deeply ...