Common name:
Creeping thistle
Family:
Scientific name:
Cirsium arvense
Main flower color:
Range:
All areas of the UK
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Fields, waste ground
Flowers:
Florets are pale pink or nearly white, while the involucral bracts are purplish, with recurved tips and bristles along the margins, otherwise hairless. Flowerheads, up to 1 cm in diameter and 2.5 cm in length, form in open clusters at the tip of the stem branches. Stems have a light hair covering, with no wings and no spines
Leaves:
Hairless, bright green, up to 15 cm long, lanceolate to oblong, pinnately lobed, with differently-sized spines along the margins
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
