Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Welted Thistle, Carduus crispus, Feochadán reangach

Welted Thistle
Carduus crispus
Feochadán reangach
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: June-August. Biennial. Native.

The red-purple flowerheads are solitary or in clusters of 3-5, bracts weakly spine-tipped. Achenes have simple pappus hairs. The spiny leaves are cottony underneath, oblong-lanceolate and pinnate, the lobes 3-lobed. Stems are erect and branched with narrow, wavy, spine-tipped wings except below the flower-heads. Height 30-120cm.

Occasional and local in the east of Ireland on banks and wasteground

Similar: Slender Thistle, Carduus tenuiflorus


Welted Thistle, Carduus crispus, Feochadán reangach

Welted Thistle, Carduus crispus, Feochadán reangach
Welted Thistle, Carduus crispus, Feochadán reangach

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