Blessed milkthistle
Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Formerly Carduus mariae, Carduus marianus, Carthamus maculatus, Centaurea dalmatica, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Medit. to C. Asia and India, EthiopiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Slovenian
- pegasti badelj
- Chinese
- 水飞蓟
- Czech
- ostropestřec mariánský
- Dutch
- Mariadistel
- Asturian
- cardu marianu
- German
- Gewöhnliche Mariendistel
- Finnish
- maarianohdake
- Simplified Chinese
- 奶蓟, 水飞蓟, 水飞雉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Silybum marianum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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