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  2. Onopordum acanthium - Wikipedia

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    Separate cypselae. Onopordum acanthium (cotton thistle, Scotch (or Scottish) thistle) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.It is native to Europe and Western Asia from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan, and north to central Scandinavia, and widely naturalised elsewhere, [1] [2] [3] with especially large populations present in the United States and Australia.

  3. Thistle - Wikipedia

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    Thistle. Cirsium arizonicum, showing arachnoid cobwebbiness on stems and leaves, with ants attending aphids that might be taking advantage of the shelter. Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the ...

  4. Cirsium vulgare - Wikipedia

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    Cirsium vulgare, the spear thistle, bull thistle, or common thistle, is a species of the Asteraceae genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa (Atlas Mountains). [3][4][5][6] It is also naturalised in North America, Africa, and Australia and ...

  5. Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia

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    Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands are the native vegetable dyes used in Scottish Gaeldom. The following are the principal dyestuffs with the colours they produce. Several of the tints are very bright, but have now been superseded for convenience of usage by various synthetic dyes. The Latin names are given where known and also the ...

  6. Cirsium arvense - Wikipedia

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    Juz. Cnicus arvensis (L.) Hoffm. Serratula arvensis L. Cirsium arvense is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native throughout Europe and western Asia, northern Africa and widely introduced elsewhere. [2][3][4][5] The standard English name in its native area is creeping thistle. [6]

  7. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Thistle is a light purple resembling the thistle plant. The first recorded use of Thistle as a color name in English was in 1892. [26] The color thistle is associated with Scotland because the thistle is the national flower of Scotland and Scotland's highest state decoration is the Order of the Thistle.

  8. Cirsium erisithales - Wikipedia

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    Cirsium erisithales can reach a height of 50–150 millimetres (2.0–5.9 in). The stems are erect, almost hairless. This plant has just a few leaves, with tooth-shaped lobes. Flower heads are lemon yellow, solitary or in groups (up to 5), with a diameter of 25–30 millimetres (0.98–1.18 in). [4]

  9. Scottish thistle - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 23 July 2015, at 05:36 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may ...