Thistle Remains
by Donna Kennedy
Title
Thistle Remains
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy
Photographed in Reno, Nevada
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.
Thank you to the Administrators that Featured this photo in the following Groups:
-Macro Marvels
-Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery
-Fine Art America Professionals
-A Fascinating Purple In Nature
-Camera Art Group
-Just Perfect
-Go Take A Hike Photography Group
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March 6th, 2023
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Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Donna – your blue or purple wildflower has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2024 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your camera art has been nominated as a Special Feature by a fellow artist Camera Art member for your superb art in Camera Art Group!! You are invited to post your art in the "Special Feature Archive Discussion" in the Camera Art group. Please share the love by nominating a fellow artist whose work is in Camera Art Group. You can do that in the specific "SPECIAL FEATURES NOMINATIONS - VOL 8” discussion in the Camera Art Group.
Lesley Evered
Congratulations, your picture has been FEATURED on the home page in the group A FASCINATING PURPLE IN NATURE onon 23rd March 2023. Like/Favourite You are invited to add this featured image to the group discussion page "January to April 2023 – BEST TWELVE Selected Images Featured"
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