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 ...

Thistles or Cirsium may be best known for their showy purple flowers and pink flowers, in addition to their prickly foliage. But these perennials are also important for pollinators, as well as a ...

It may look like the last thing you'd want to eat, but that scary-looking bull thistle is edible. Here's how to prepare it according to the LSU Ag Center ...

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 ...

However, the mowing does need to be constant to be effective. The optimum timing for mowing is when the Californian thistle has just reached the flower bud stage, but flower buds have not yet opened.

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 ...

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 ...