Field Thistle
Scientific Name: Cirsium discolor
Large, spiny-margined leaves are white beneath. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).
Field Thistle
Scientific Name: Cirsium discolor
Field Thistle
| Genus species: | Cirsium discolor | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Field Thistle | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Asteraceae 
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela). | |||||||||||
| Seed Type | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Native | |||||||||||
| Category: | Wildflower | |||||||||||
| Flower Color: | Pink/Red | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | A. Swanson | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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