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Thistles?

19 years ago

I've been looking but haven't found anything....I've a thistle type plant and all I get when searching Eastern WA and Thistle is info on 'Russian Thistle'...

Has a basal rosette with leave resembling dandilion except much more deeply serrated edges that point out>>(base) from the base rather than point downI can't tell you for sure that this is a thistle but the buds make it look as though I'm not far off track. All in all the plant is no taller than 2' .

Can someone run off some thistles I can research or plants resembling thistles? I probably should wait to see what the bloom looks like but I'm dying to know :)

Thanks ,

Vera

Comments (2)

pasadena
19 years ago
try Canada thistle.

As an unrelated thought, if you haven't visited there, you may wish to explore the educational programs on the WSU Marion Ownbey Herbarium web site.

Here is a link that might be useful: Educational Programs: Ownbey Herbarium
Vera_EWASH
Original Author
19 years ago
Thanks for the reminder!
I forgot about The Marion Ownbey website :)

Vera
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