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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. Campanula rotundifolia - Wikipedia

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    Campanula rotundifolia is a slender, prostrate to erect herbaceous perennial, spreading by seed and rhizomes. The basal leaves are long-stalked, rounded to heart-shaped, usually slightly toothed, with prominent hydathodes, and often wither early. Leaves on the flowering stems are long and narrow and the upper ones are unstemmed. [6]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Nemo me impune lacessit - Wikipedia

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    Scotland's floral emblem.. According to legend, the "guardian thistle" (see Cirsium vulgare) played a vital part in Alexander III, King of Scots' defence of the Kingdom of Scotland against a night-time raiding party of Vikings under King Haakon IV of Norway, prior to the Battle of Largs (1263): one or more raiders let out a yell of pain when stepping on a prickly thistle, thus alerting the ...

  6. Onopordum - Wikipedia

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    Onopordum. Acanos Adans. Acanthium Heist. ex Fabr. Onopordum, or cottonthistle, [3] is a genus of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. [4] They are native to southern Europe, northern Africa, the Canary Islands, the Caucasus, and southwest and central Asia. They grow on disturbed land, roadsides, arable land and pastures.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Cirsium heterophyllum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Cirsium palustre - Wikipedia

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    Cirsium palustre is a tall thistle which reaches up to 2 metres (7 ft) in height. The strong stems have few branches and are covered in small spines. In its first year the plant grows as a dense rosette, at first with narrow, entire leaves with spiny, dark purple edges; later, larger leaves are lobed. In the subsequent years the plant grows a ...

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