Roadside Bull Thistle(Cirsium vulgare).
Composite family. Native to
Europe, naturalized in North America. The Bull Thistle has remarkably prickly
branches
and spinky bracts with their characteristic yellow tips. It is a very large
plant, standing out
along paths and roadsides at a height of sometimes more than two meters (six
feet).
Bull Thistle is a biennial and forms a rossette of leaves the first growing
season and
a tall, erect. spiny stem the next. Produces downy seeds carried considerable
distances
by the wind.
(Photograph made during the third week of August, 2000.)
(Can be found flowering now along country roads and other waste
places.)
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