Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Creeping Thistle, Cirsium arvense, Feochadán reatha
Photographs: Co. Cork

Creeping Thistle
Cirsium arvense
Feochadán reatha
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: July-September. Perennial. Native.

Short-stalked pink-mauve flowers, sometimes white, with spine-tipped bracts. Deeply pinnate, grey-green leaves, the toothed lobes with very prickly margins. Erect un-winged stems from a creeping, spreading rootstock. Height: To 100cm.

Common on roadsides, waste ground, grassland and arable land.

Similar: Slender Thistle, Carduus tenuiflorus. Mainly E and SE coasts

Creeping Thistle, Cirsium arvense, Feochadán reatha

Creeping Thistle, Cirsium arvense, Feochadán reatha
Creeping Thistle, Cirsium arvense, Feochadán reatha

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