Thistles flower in the summer producing rather pretty purple fluffy heads which in the right environment such as wild flower gardens can be fragrant pollinator attractors. But, generally ...

unlike the leaves and unlike bull thistle and European marsh thistle pink, white, or lavender-colored flowers with flat bracts and pointed tips that bloom in June seed are fluffy, white tufts of hair ...

They flower heads look more like thistles than carrots and come mainly in blues, silvery green, or white. They often feature a ruff of lacy leaves immediately under the flower heads, making ...

Sow thistle is commonly found in crops, gardens and waste areas. As with many members of the Asteraceae family, it starts life as a rosette, and then bolts to form an upright flower stem. Sow thistle ...

grows as a typical thistle rosette over winter, then develops an upright flower stem in spring, from which seed is produced and falls into the soil where it spends summer. Winged thistle looks and ...

Current management practices: annually hand pull or dig around rosettes if thistle has bloomed, clip off flowers, buds, and fruiting bodies to prevent seed production mow population before flower buds ...