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A number of other names are used in other areas or have been used in the past, including: Canadian thistle, lettuce from hell thistle, California thistle, [10] corn thistle, cursed thistle, field thistle, green thistle, hard thistle, perennial thistle, prickly thistle, setose thistle, small-flowered thistle, way thistle, and stinger-needles ...
Milk thistle flowerhead 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 spikes on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all ...
Aceria anthocoptes, also known as the russet mite, [1] rust mite, [2] thistle mite or the Canada thistle mite, [3] is a species of mite that belongs to the family Eriophyidae.It was first described by Alfred Nalepa in 1892.
Cirsium discolor, the field thistle, [2] is a North American species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to thirty-three states in the United States as well four Canadian provinces. [3] It occurs across much of eastern and central Canada as well as eastern and central United States.
Cirsium flodmanii, commonly known as prairie thistle, Flodman's thistle, or (in French) chardon de Flodman, is a plant species native to Canada and the northern United States. It has been found in every Canadian province from Québec to Alberta , as well as from the northern Great Plains , northern Rocky Mountains , and western Great Lakes ...
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The Cardueae are a tribe of flowering plants in the daisy family and the subfamily Carduoideae. [5] Most of them are commonly known as thistles; [6] four of the best known genera are Carduus, [7] Cynara (containing the widely eaten artichoke), Cirsium, [7] and Onopordum.
Cirsium scariosum is a species of thistle known by the common names meadow thistle, elk thistle and dwarf thistle. [2] It is native to much of western North America from Alberta and British Columbia , south to Baja California .