nodding thistle

Noun
  1. Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads;
    Valuable source of nectar (synset 111965423)
    is a type of: thistle - any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
    belongs to: carduus, genus carduus - genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles
    same as: carduus nutans, musk thistle

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