Meadow Thistle Leaves | Slide Mouse
This is a native plant which belongs to the asteraceae family.
Meadow thistle leaves. It is found in fens and less acidic peat bogs i e. Pink wildflowers of west and southwest usa. It prefers damp boggy areas. The melancholy thistle is a plant of upland pastures in the north of the uk.
It is native to much of western north america from alberta and british columbia south to baja california. They can spread by seed and also by rhizomes below the surface cirsium arvense. The seed has tufts of tiny hair or pappus which can carry them far by wind. Reflexed phyllary spines and perfect having both male and female parts flowers.
There are also isolated populations on the canadian atlantic coast on the mingan archipelago in qu bec. It can be found in high summer in unimproved upland hay meadows open woodlands and along streams and roadside verges. Cirsium dissectum grows 15 to 50 cm tall. This plant has no children legal status.
Extensions from the leaf base down the stem called wings can be lacking cirsium arvense conspicuous cirsium vulgare or inconspicuous. Though the different thistles share similar characteristics there are ways to identify each individual type. The leaves are only slightly pinnatifid green and hairy above whitish and cottony below and slightly toothed. Meadow thistle subordinate taxa.
Cirsium scariosum is a species of thistle known by the common names meadow thistle elk thistle and dwarf thistle. I first recorded this wildflower in 2007 beside a turlough at mullachmore co clare and photographed it also then. The fruit is a feathery pappus. Highly lobed with wavy margins.
White or reddish flowers long thin leaves and pappus bristles surrounding the flowerheads. Leaves tomentose cottony woolly underneath with a grayish cast resembling scotch thistle. Meadow thistle elk thistle. This plant is listed by the u s.
Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed. With its vivid purple flowers and thorny leaves and stems thistle can quickly take over a garden or landscape. Cirsium dissectum also known as meadow thistle is an erect perennial herb. It is found in england wales ireland france the netherlands germany italy spain hungary norway etc.
Its leaves are elliptical and much less prickly than most common thistles clinging close to the hairy stem or at the base of the plant. Common names are from state and federal lists. Federal government or a state.