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Different flowers of milk thistle buds isolated on a white background. Silybum marianum.

Echinops flower bud.

Silybum marianum or milk thistle purple flower used in medicine isolated transparent background

Scottish Thistle

Image taken in May in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Flowering Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum). Also known as Marian's Thistle, St. Mary's Thistle, Holy Thistle, and Blessed Thistle. Historically used as a medicinal herb. An invasive species in many areas.

Flower of wild milk thistle flower silybum marianum garden

Scotch (or Scottish) thistle (Onopordum acanthium) is also known as cotton thistle. The photograph shows how it looks in its second year, which is when it grows to measure about 7 feet (over 2 metres) in height. Scotch thistle is biennial. At first a spiny rosette shows itself while a deep tap root is developing under the soil. In the second year, the large central stem grows and classic and impressive purple thistle flowers grow from June to July. It has been suggested that gardeners might plant this thistle deliberately just for this impressive display, together with its overall attractive pale grey-green colour. The ground in which this thistle flourishes was cleared of brambles just a year ago, with a view to turning the land into allotments for local gardeners. In the meantime, living seeds have developed, and now the area grows foxgloves, opium poppies, scarlet pimpernel, red dead-nettle, Rumex, purple vetch, stinging nettles and groundsel, to name but a few, in addition to the Scotch thistle.

Nature's resilience: A solitary thistle stands tall amidst the sprawling fields, a testament to its strength and beauty in the face of the elements. #FieldElegance #NatureResilience

Close up view of a bee on a thistle flower

Thistle on a white background

Cotton Thistle, Onopordum acanthium, sometimes posited as the Scotch Thistle, against a natural green background with copy space.

Silybum marianum or milk thistle purple flower used in medicine isolated transparent background.

Close up of a bull or common thistle (cirsium vulgare) in spring.

Close up of an unopened thistle flower head. Cirsium. Selective focus. Areas out of focus.

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) on its way to blossom

Thistle flower and leaves with prickles isolated against white

Purple flowers garden background

A closeup of an onopordum armenum bud in a meadow with a blurry backgroun

Close-up of a fluffy fuchsia-purple flower.

Plants of Europe with purple or pink colours.

Cynara scolymus, commonly called globe artichoke, is an upright columnar perennial vegetable which features lobed, jagged, deeply-serrate, green leaves and thistle-like flowers. The edible portions of the plant consist of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom.

Cirsium vulgare, the spear thistle, bull thistle, or common thistle, is a species of the Asteraceae genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe, Western Asia, and northwestern Africa.

wild flower in close up

Thistle plant, dry and thistle seeds.

Close up of Seed heads of coneflower (Echinacea sp.) in late autumn or early winter

Details of dead seed heads of a fynbos plant.

Milk thistle (Silybum marianum)

Bavaria Germany

Thistle close up

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