plume thistle
Noun
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Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads (synset 111974353)
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 leavessubtypes:
- canada thistle, cirsium arvense, creeping thistle - European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed
- cirsium flodmanii, woolly thistle - thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves
- brook thistle, cirsium rivulare - of central and southwestern Europe
- boar thistle, bull thistle, cirsium lanceolatum, cirsium vulgare, spear thistle - European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States
belongs to: cirsium, genus cirsium - plume thistlessame as: plumed thistle
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