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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. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  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. 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.

  8. Flora of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Flora of Scotland. The flora of Scotland is an assemblage of native plant species including over 1,600 vascular plants, more than 1,500 lichens and nearly 1,000 bryophytes. The total number of vascular species is low by world standards but lichens and bryophytes are abundant and the latter form a population of global importance.

  9. National symbols of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Arms of Scotland [2] is a coat of arms symbolising Scotland and the Scottish monarchs.The blazon, or technical description, is "Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second", meaning a red lion with blue tongue and claws on a yellow field and surrounded by a red double royal tressure flory counter-flory device.

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