Plants may need support ... Upright stems carry small, grey-blue, thistle-like flowers that sit on a broad, spiny ruff that adds enormously to their impact. ‘Picos Amethyst’ (15-18in) has ...

The Sacramento Mountains thistle is a rare purple flower than can grow to be six feet tall and lives only in wet, high-elevation habitats in the Sacramento Mountains near the town of Cloudcroft, New ...

For example, a field thick with Russian thistle can aid in the spread of wildfire. A tumbleweed's tangle of dry branches is particularly flammable and as the dead plants roll their way across fire ...

Thistle’s plant-forward focus sets it apart from more ... Thistle also serves desserts like cherry cheesecake mousse and balsamic peach crumble with vanilla cashew cream. Thistle makes ...

It is unwanted in pasture because livestock do not like grazing too close to the spiny foliage, so pasture plants beside thistle plants don’t get eaten. The Californian thistle can be very competitive ...

Native to Europe but common in the U.S. today as well, milk thistle is a flowering plant in the daisy (Asteraceae) family of flowers. This is the same plant family that has more than 30,000 other ...

Like many other biennial invasives, bull thistle is able to produce a large seed bank that can remain viable for up to 10 years! As a result, the plant can easily spread and form dense stands in ...

Under dry conditions though, a winged thistle can become more slender too like the slender winged thistle ... MCPB can be used on young rosettes, or else 2,4-D or MCPA on older plants. In parts of ...

The Sacramento Mountains thistle is a rare purple flower than can grow to be six feet tall and lives only in wet, high-elevation habitats in the Sacramento Mountains near the town of Cloudcroft, New ...