Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Meadow Thistle, Cirsium dissectum, Feochadán móna
Photographs: Co. Clare and C0. Limerick

Meadow Thistle
Cirsium dissectum
Feochadán móna
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering July-August. Perennial. Native.

Solitary deep-purple flowers surrounded by erect, cottony bracts, the outer bracts spine-tipped. Flower-stems are unbranched, unwinged and covered with cottony hairs. Leaves are mostly basal, green above, white-cottony below and usually scarcely-lobed with weak marginal prickles.

Grows in damp, poorly drained ground on neutral to less-acidic fens and peaty soils. Most frequent in west, north-west and central Ireland.

Occasionally hybridises with other Cirsium species

Meadow Thistle, Cirsium dissectum, Feochadán móna

Meadow Thistle, Cirsium dissectum, Feochadán móna
Meadow Thistle, Cirsium dissectum, Feochadán móna

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