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Creeping thistle is a herbaceous perennial plant growing up to 150 cm, forming extensive clonal colonies from thickened roots that send up numerous erect shoots during the growing season. [14] It is a ruderal species .
Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle) is listed in the United States (where as a non-native invasive species it has been renamed "bull thistle") as a noxious weed in nine states. [6] Some species in particular are cultivated in gardens and wildflower plantings for their aesthetic value and/or to support pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
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).
The typically feathery pappus of a ripe thistle flower is known as thistle-down. [1] The spininess varies considerably by species. For example, Cirsium heterophyllum has very soft spines while Cirsium spinosissimum is the opposite. [2] Typically, species adapted to dry environments are more spiny.
Apolygus spinolae is a species of true bug in the Miridae family. It can be found throughout Europe, except for Albania, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Malta, and Portugal. [1] and not in the extreme south. Then east across the Palearctic to Siberia, and through Central Asia to China and Japan
Cirsium heterophyllum, the melancholy thistle, [1] is an erect spineless herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia , where it grows in upland meadows, grasslands , road verges and open woodland.
Spear thistle Cirsium dissectum: Meadow thistle Cirsium tuberosum: Tuberous thistle Cirsium erisithales: Yellow thistle * Cirsium heterophyllum: Melancholy thistle Cirsium oleraceum: Cabbage thistle * Cirsium acaule: Dwarf thistle Cirsium palustre: Marsh thistle Cirsium arvense: Creeping thistle Onopordum acanthium: Cotton thistle Silybum ...
British NVC community OV25 (Urtica dioica - Cirsium arvense community) is one of the open habitat communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.It is one of four tall-herb weed communities.