Thistle Beauty

by Donna Kennedy

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Thistle Beauty

Artist

Donna Kennedy

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Photograph - Photographs

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Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy
Edited in Topaz Studio-Photographed in Reno, Nevada
Texture added for an artistic enhancement...

Thistles (Carduus acanthoides) are members of the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and can be annual, biennal, or perennial. True thistles have spines along the leaf margins and their flower heads are generally pink-purple and surrounded by bracts that are typically spiny. Carduus acanthoides may exceed 6.6 ft in height and can form weedy monotypic stands. The stem and foliage are spiny and sometimes woolly. The plant starts from a flat basal rosette and then bolts an erect stem with occasional toothed, wrinkled, spiny leaves.
At the top of each branch of the stem is an inflorescence of one to several flower heads, each rounded, covered in spiny phyllaries, and bearing many threadlike purple disc florets.

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July 30th, 2019

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