Protect your garden and lawn by attacking invasive thistle. These weeds thrive in hot summer weather, so it is essential to ...

All three have flowers very similar to dandelions, so you might think they are just dandies with long, long stems. Like ...

Expert Tips to Get Rid of ThistlesThistle is tricky because birds and butterflies love it, but gardeners and farmers hate it. We asked our gardening expert for advice on how to get rid of thistle ...

Do you loathe Canada thistle? Do you marvel at field bindweed’s “indomitable vitality,” and occasionally leap from your ...

There are 20 thistles native to Colorado, besides being prickly, they are desirable plants. Thistles are in the Asteraceae, sunflower (daisy) family.

The flowers are insect pollinated, and various thistle species are widely known as important food sources for butterflies, as well as bees. ... — Asa Gray, “How Plants Grow,” 1858.

Our Mystery Plant (Tall thistle, Cirsium altissimum) is a thistle, and I was able to enter a patch of this stuff on a recent field trip in the upstate of South Carolina.Spiny stuff! It is, in fact ...

The plant can grow up to 4 feet tall and 5 feet wide. ... “This year alone, we’ve already found more than 5,000 Russian thistle plants just on this beach,” said Lawrence.