What is milk thistle good for? Here are the advantages and downsides of taking milk thistle supplements – plus whether it is ...

The basal foliage of the Italian eryngo is evergreen in milder climates and looks rather like leathery thistle leaves. In summer, the well branched stems carry small egg-shaped flower heads ...

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 ...

Sow thistle is commonly found in crops, gardens and waste areas. As with many members of the Asteraceae family, it starts life as a rosette, and then bolts to form an upright flower stem. Sow thistle ...

New plants re-establish from these roots in spring, and flowering occurs in summer and autumn. It is unwanted in pasture because livestock do not like grazing too close to the spiny foliage, so ...

Canada thistle is a colony-forming perennial from deep and extensive horizontal roots. Stems are 1 to 4 feet tall, ridged, branching above. Leaves are alternate, lacking petioles, oblong or ...

Native to Europe but common in the U.S. today as well, milk thistle is a flowering plant in the daisy (Asteraceae) family of flowers. This is the same plant family that has more than 30,000 other ...

Current management practices: annually hand pull or dig around rosettes if thistle has bloomed, clip off flowers, buds, and fruiting bodies to prevent seed production mow population before flower buds ...