Skye Flora

Creeping Thistle


Cirsium arvense

 

Cirsium arvense

Photo © Carl Farmer
1 Aug 2002 Portree

Common on roadsides, rough ground and grassland

Flowerhead diameter c 2 cm

Skye ID: Leaves spiny, stem spineless.

Other features: Flowerheads fragrant.  Involucre purplish.  Spreads by creeping roots.  Separate male and female flowerheads, the male ones having more spherical involucres.

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Cirsium arvense

Photo © Carl Farmer
1 Aug 2002 Portree

  Cirsium arvense

Photo © Carl Farmer
23 Sep 2002 Glenbrittle

 

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