thistle

If I’m reading my wildflowers handbook right, these were tidy tips, Goldfields, Owl’s Clover, thistle sage, Valley Larkspur, coreopsis, phacelia and hillside daisies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Adidas' iconic three stripes feature along the shoulders and down the sleeves and a purple and green thistle motif, symbolising Scotland's national flower, is on the reverse collar.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

And since each sphere, though itself dead, seldom carries fewer than 150,000 fertile seeds, and sometimes as many as a quarter of a million, every tumbler leaves a vast wake of potential Russian thistle plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Researchers from the University of Cologne have found a new use for Cnicin, a substance produced in blessed thistle.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

Now he came out of a nearby clump of mugwort and flowering thistle and joined Hazel under the thorn.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

"The only things that started growing were docks and thistles," said Pawsey, whose entire quinoa crop failed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

He wears goggles to protect them from brambles and thistles.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024

Most thistles are weeds that are extremely prickly but have beautiful flowers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Bellatine names their new possession Thistlefoot, remembering her mother’s comment that “people in our family, we’re born with thistles in our feet. It’s why we’re always traveling.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022

Out of sight of Mrs. Strawberry, I veer toward Mr. Reilly’s house, leaping mullens and thistles growing in the fallow field.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George