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musk thistle

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Noun1.musk thistle - Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower headsmusk thistle - Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
thistle - any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
Carduus, genus Carduus - genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles


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The events will give people a chance to learn about wildflowers found at the site such as ladies bedstraw, musk thistle, mouse-ear hawkweed and wild thyme.
Roy Reichenbach, weed and pest program coordinator at the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, reported that biocontrols helped the State manage two invasive plants, the musk thistle and leafy spurge.
Musk thistles, also called nodding thistle, are a common thistle plant.
 
 
 
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