Cirsium vulgare
Spear Thistle at Jerrabomberra, NSW
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| Cirsium vulgare | MichaelMulvaney | 17 May 2022 | |
| Unverified | Tmac | 16 May 2022 |
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Any idea what this is?
Big Leaves are approx 5cm each now. It was not there a week ago, so it's quite young.
It is only off the ground, max 1cm
Silly me, tried to remove it, before taking a photo of the full rosette. Originally it was a perfectly round rosette, with 6-8 leaves in the rosette!
It is very spikey!
1 or 2 of the the spikes pierced my leather gloves, with needle like spikes (approx 1cm), came off plant, into my glove, like a cactus needle!
It came up through a crack in our concrete. & have not seen anything like it before, in our yard / cracks.
Some kind of cactus, with a 6-8 leaf young rosette?
Any tips to Organically get rid of it, (& its roots) from our concrete crack, since needles come off like a cactus? Ouch!
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- 1 Abundance
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- Less than 10cm Plant height
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Species information
- Cirsium vulgare Scientific name
- Spear Thistle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Medium weed or pest
- Up to 1576.4m Recorded at altitude
Seasonal activity
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In flower
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