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2. Silybum marianum - Wikipedia

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   Silybum marianum. (L.) Gaertn. Silybum marianum is a species of thistle. It has various common names including milk thistle, [1] blessed milkthistle, [2] Marian thistle, Mary thistle, Saint Mary's thistle, Mediterranean milk thistle, variegated thistle and Scotch thistle (though not to be confused with Onopordum acanthium or Cirsium vulgare).

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. Silybum - Wikipedia

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   Silybum (milk thistle) is a genus of two species of thistles in the family Asteraceae. [1][3] The plants are native to the Mediterranean regions of Europe, [4] North Africa, and the Middle East. One species has been introduced elsewhere, including in North America. [5] The name "milk thistle" derives from a feature of the leaves, which are ...

5. 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.

6. Carduus pycnocephalus - Wikipedia

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   Carduus pycnocephalus flowers (Italy). Carduus pycnocephalus, with common names including Italian thistle, Italian plumeless thistle, and Plymouth thistle, [1] is a species of thistle. It is native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia; Eastern Europe and the Caucasus; and the Indian Subcontinent. [2]

7. Cirsium - Wikipedia

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   Cirsium is a genus of perennial and biennial flowering plants in the Asteraceae, one of several genera known commonly as thistles. They are more precisely known as plume thistles[citation needed]. These differ from other thistle genera (Carduus, Silybum and Onopordum) in having a seed with a pappus of feathered hairs on their achenes.