plume thistle


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Related to plume thistle: bull thistle, Common thistle
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Noun1.plume thistle - any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads
thistle - any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
Cirsium, genus Cirsium - plume thistles
Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense, creeping thistle - European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed
Cirsium flodmanii, woolly thistle - thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves
brook thistle, Cirsium rivulare - of central and southwestern Europe
boar thistle, bull thistle, Cirsium lanceolatum, Cirsium vulgare, spear thistle - European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States
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But if this is too weed-like for your borders, here's a more cultivated variety - the purple plume thistle. It will rise elegantly to around 4ft with a dark crimson flower head.