Scientific Name
Cirsium horridulum
Common Name
Yellow thistle
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
2 to 5 feet
Flower/fruit:
3 inch yellow flower head; spiny bracts that may be purple or white
Flowering Season:
Late spring into early summer
Foliage:
2 to 5 inch, deeply incised, extremely bristly leaves; woolly when young
Site:
Sandy soil, fields, shores, salt marshes, savannahs, roadsides, waste places
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