prettily veined in white. Upright stems carry small, grey-blue, thistle-like flowers that sit on a broad, spiny ruff that adds enormously to their impact. ‘Picos Amethyst’ (15-18in ...

unlike the leaves and unlike bull thistle and European marsh thistle pink, white, or lavender-colored flowers with flat bracts and pointed tips that bloom in June seed are fluffy, white tufts of hair ...

The shape of the flower head tends to differ as well, and the leaves of young sow thistle plants tend to have a large terminal lobe, unlike hawksbeard. As with the prickly sow thistle and hawksbeard, ...