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Thistle
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January 16, 2005 copyright 2005 Judy Pochard

January-16-05
Thistle

Hueston Woods State Park

Just a shot from a snowy walk in the woods today with my daughter.


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Ruth Moorhead27-May-2007 00:45
This is Teasel; it is actually in a different plant family from the thistles. The heads used to be attached to tools to card wool for spinning. It is painstaking work to get rid of a patch of these biennial or perennial plants, because not only does each plant put out flower heads almost ALL year, but also the flowers (each head here is a spiral of hundreds) mature sequentially, and thus it seems ALWAYS to be producing seeds.
Dawn17-Jan-2005 02:45
Nice closeup