Results for "thistle"
9 pages found.
Cotton thistleOnopordum acanthium
Tall, spiny thistle with pink to lavender globe-shaped flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Globe thistleEchinops
Spiny perennial with blue or white globe-shaped flower heads
Echinops · Wildflower
Spear thistleCirsium vulgare
Tall, spiny thistle with purple flowers and a symbol of Scotland
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Jāņi
Latvia’s midsummer festival with wreaths, bonfires, and solstice songs
🇱🇻 Latvia and 3 more · Custom, June
SafflowerCarthamus tinctorius
A thistle-like annual grown for oil, dye, and as a saffron substitute
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Centaurea
A large group of thistle-like wildflowers with many forms and colours
Centaurea · Wildflower
Plains eryngoEryngium planum
A spiky blue perennial with thistle-like flowerheads and silvery stems
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Sea-hollyEryngium maritimum
A spiny, blue-grey perennial of European and Mediterranean coasts
🇮🇪 Ireland and 6 more · Wildflower
Eryngium
A spiny-leaved plant with blue or white flower heads, grown in gardens and used in cooking
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Globe thistle: No machine-readable author provided. Victor M. Vicente Selvas assumed, Public domain, source
- Safflower: AndrewMT, CC BY 3.0, source
- Spear thistle: Sciadopitys, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cotton thistle: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Centaurea: Taken by Carsten Niehaus ( user:Lumbar )., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Plains eryngo: No machine-readable author provided. Bogdan assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sea-holly: Radomil ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eryngium: The original uploader was Ramin Nakisa at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jāņi: Heinrihsons, CC BY-SA 2.0, source