Onopordum acanthium

Scotch Thistle at Fadden, ACT

Onopordum acanthium at Fadden, ACT - 28 Mar 2016
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Identification history

Onopordum acanthium 8 Apr 2016 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 1 Apr 2016 ArcherCallaway

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thousands of dead normal thistles around, but this one was wierd in that it was hugging the ground and the only one that wasn't brown already

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Mike wrote:
   6 Apr 2016
The leaves look like Onopordum acanthium (your normal thistle) but there is a ground-hugging stemless thistle Onopordum acaulon you could search for. It is not in the ACT Plant Census.
   8 Apr 2016
The stemless thistle and nodding thistle are similar but leaves are much more spiky than those of the Scotch Thistle

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  • Onopordum acanthium Scientific name
  • Scotch Thistle Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Major weed or pest
  • Up to 827.86m Recorded at altitude
  • 90 images trained Machine learning
  • In flower
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