WAVY-LEAVED THISTLE

Class: Cirsium undulatum

Family: ASTER FAMILY

Sub Family: Asteraceae, Compositae

Year: Perennial

Other Names: Woolly Thistle, Prairie Thistle

Colour: Purplish-pink or lavender-rose

Height: 30 cm-1.2 m (1-4')

Each Flower: May be up to 7.5 cm (3") across with many disk flowers forming large, spreading tuft; involucre fairly squat, round, bracts in tight spiral, outer bracts with sticky ridge, hairy margins and spiny tips

Leaves: Divided into deeply toothed, spine-tipped lobes; lower leaves have flattened, spine-margined stalks, younger leaves whitish, hairy

Stems: Downy, branching into flower-stems

Blooming Period: May - September

Habitat: Drier open valleys. Open to sparsely wooded, dry areas from low to middle elevations

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