Next, he spots a spear thistle with its purple plume and spiny stem.

Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)

The Spear Thistle is an annual or biennial plant which forms dark purple or reddish flowers above dark green spiked leaves.

Spear Thistle is often a ruderal species, colonising bare disturbed ground, but also persists well on heavily grazed land as it is unpalatable to most grazing animals.

Cirsium vulgare (Bull Thistle, Common Thistle, or Spear Thistle) is listed as a noxious weed in nine US states.

Cirsium vulgare - Bull Thistle, Spear Thistle, Common Thistle, Fuller's Thistle (syn.

Spear Thistle is designated an "injurious weed" under the UK Weeds Act 1959, and a noxious weed in Australia and in nine US states.

It received Royal Assent on 16 July 1959, and aims to prevent the spread of the Broad Leaved Dock, Common Ragwort, Creeping Thistle, Curled Dock and the Spear Thistle.

Yarrow grows on the tips, and bugle, ling and heather, carline and spear thistle, foxglove, rushes on the wetter ground, birdsfoot trefoil, ribwort, great plantain, silverweed, tormentil, selfheal, meadow buttercup, sorrel and sheep's sorrel, ragwort and scabious.

Popular modern usage favours Cotton Thistle Onopordum acanthium, perhaps because of its more imposing appearance, though it is unlikely to have occurred in Scotland in mediaeval times; the Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare, an abundant native species in Scotland, is a more likely candidate.

In her fine-boned hands was a bouquet of clover, crabgrass, and lavender bull thistles.

Chenango, which means "Bull thistle" in the Oneida language, may refer to:

Paused for an instant, narrow-eyed at a bull thistle, and prised it from the ground with a vicious stab of my pruning knife.

Then they put a bull thistle under his tail, causing the horse to plunge into the tent, creating havoc and spoiling the meeting for the night.

Other English names include bull thistle, Scots, Scottish or Scotch thistle and common thistle.

Other plants in Mill Creek Wilderness include aster (genus), bull thistle, snowberry, and both native and non-native species of grass.

Named after the Oneida word for bull thistle, in the 19th century the Chenango furnished a critical link in the canal system of the northeastern United States.

Cirsium vulgare (Bull Thistle, Common Thistle, or Spear Thistle) is listed as a noxious weed in nine US states.

But many of the imports, including wood rose, bull thistle, English ivyand spotted knapweed, arrived without their natural enemies - the insects, microorganisms and competing plants that keep them in check back home.

Cirsium vulgare - Bull Thistle, Spear Thistle, Common Thistle, Fuller's Thistle (syn.

I was amused and gratified to find (one at a time) staghorn sumac, lettuces, fiddlehead ferns, milkweed in the pod stage, skunk cabbage, barberry and even bull thistle represented.

The Bull Thistle Cave Archaeological Site is an archaeological site on the National Register of Historic Places, located in Tazewell County, Virginia.

The new State Park acquisition, Harmony Headlands, contains the native Indian thistle (Circium brevistylum), which looks similar to the invasive bull thistle (Circium vulgare).

Then left a garland of late-summer bull thistle on the sunken place, the delicate violet blooms marking a last rest, and in spring, they said, morel mushrooms grew there in the deep leaf mold.

Maybe now, on a dry October night, crisp and moonlit, you can still hear their progeny running in those same mountains where the oak and walnut and chinquapin and bull thistle and morels and legends grow.

More accustomed to field expeditions in the foothills of the Andes than in the canyons of the financial district, Dr. Nee got into the spirit of things when he spied the prickly leaf of a bull thistle.

Other English names include bull thistle, Scots, Scottish or Scotch thistle and common thistle.

Cirsium vulgare (Bull Thistle, Common Thistle, or Spear Thistle) is listed as a noxious weed in nine US states.

Cirsium vulgare - Bull Thistle, Spear Thistle, Common Thistle, Fuller's Thistle (syn.

Cirsium vulgare (I)

Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)

The weevil was observed on the native thistle at about the same rate as the targeted invasive thistle (Cirsium vulgare).

Popular modern usage favours Cotton Thistle Onopordum acanthium, perhaps because of its more imposing appearance, though it is unlikely to have occurred in Scotland in mediaeval times; the Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare, an abundant native species in Scotland, is a more likely candidate.