Creeping thistle Cirsium arvense

Features

Perennial with deciduous rhizome.

Species	Perrenial
Living space	Cultivated areas, Field, Meadow, Treeline
Size	from 30 to 50 cm

Description

A highly variable species that grows to a height of 30 to 50 cm. The stem is very wingless. The stem is bare or cobwebby in the upper part. Leaves long, entire or with a patchy to feathery divided surface and a thorny serrated edge, without bristles or thorny hairs on both sides, green, grayish to bare on the underside. Cats singly on top of shoots or a slight cluster. The inner sheath leaves are oblong-ovate. It grows as a weed in fields and ruins from the lowlands to the Montana belt.