Bull Thistle
സിർസിയം വൾഗറെ
Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Common Thistle, Scotch Thistle, Spear Thistle, Canada Thistle, Black Thistle
Formerly Carduus vulgaris, Epitrachys vulgaris
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and Arabian Pen., NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Ojibwa
- Gichi-mazaanaatig (Ji'masa'nûck)
- Spanish
- Cardo común, cardo negro, Cardo
- Russian
- Бодяк обыкновенный
- French
- Cirse commun, Cirse à feuilles lancéolées
- Italian
- cardo asinino
- Dutch
- Speerdistel
- root
- CIRVUL, Feochadán colgach, CIVU
- Swedish
- Vägtistel
- German
- Gewöhnliche Kratzdistel, Lanzett-Kratzdistel
- Bulgarian
- Обикновена паламида
- Czech
- pcháč obecný
- Japanese
- アメリカオニアザミ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Cirsium vulgare (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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