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Title
Prickly Beauty II
Artist
Veikko Suikkanen
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle, bull thistle, or common thistle) is a species of the daisy genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa (Atlas Mountains). It is also naturalised in North America, Africa, and Australia and is an invasive weed in some areas. It is the national flower of Scotland.
It is a tall biennial or short-lived monocarpic thistle, forming a rosette of leaves and a taproot up to 70 cm long in the first year, and a flowering stem 1–1.5 m tall in the second (rarely third or fourth) year. The stem is winged, with numerous longitudinal spine-tipped wings along its full length. The leaves are stoutly spined, grey-green, deeply lobed; the basal leaves up to 15–25 cm long, with smaller leaves on the upper part of the flower stem; the leaf lobes are spear-shaped (from which the English name derives). The inflorescence is 2.5–5 cm diameter, pink-purple, with all the florets of similar form (no division into disc and ray florets). The seeds are 5 mm long, with a downy pappus, which assists in wind dispersal. As in other species of Cirsium (but unlike species in the related genus Carduus), the pappus hairs are feathery with fine side hairs.
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August 6th, 2017
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Manigotagan, MB - Canada
You have made an annoying thistle to many, beautiful, by capturing it's color and placing it a stellar composition. vf mm
Burnaby, BC - Canada
As always, your use of colour inspires and delights me. Nice composition and bokeh. Bravo! L
Doniphan, MO - United States
Love this beautiful view of the Thistle Veikko! Gorgeous colors, detail. and the background is wonderful as well!! f/l
Greenwich, CT - United States
Stunning close up photo of a thistle bloom, with great light, colors, colorful background bokeh, and composition, Veikko! F/L
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