Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum)
Description:
Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum) belongs to the Asteraceae family, flowers from June to September, and grows from 50 to 150 cm tall. It is the thistle of our mountain pastures, stream banks, forest edges. From afar, we notice the tall flower with large spiny flowerheads. It grows up to 2000 m high. These cobwebby, hairy spiny flowerheads are up to 7 cm large and there is a violet flower on top of the flowerheads. The leaves are pinnately incised, spiny, white-tomentose hairy below.
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