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field thistle

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Noun1.field thistle - stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower headsfield thistle - stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads
Cirsium discolor
thistle - any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
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Last year council officers drafted new policies in a bid to stop the spread of weeds such as Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, spear thistle, creeping thistle, field thistle, curled dock, broad-leaved dock and ragwort, which poisons grazing animals.
Winning battle of the weeds by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
It belongs in the same family as teasel, yet looks like an ordinary field thistle at first.
Best of bedfellows; Look to these perennials for long-term colour by Chudziak, Bill / Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Council officers have drafted new policies in a bid to stop the spread of weeds such as invasive Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, spear thistle, creeping thistle, field thistle, curled dock, broad-leaved dock and ragwort, which poisons grazing animals.
Council sets out plans for war against weeds by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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