Scientific Name: Cirsium palustre.
English Name: Marsh Thistle.
French Name: Le Cirse de marais
5 Key Characters:
Habitat: Marshes, meadows, damp grassland, open woodland and hedges. It is the host plant for a variety of insects who lay their eggs in the stems and have larvae which live inside them eg Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn beetle Agapanthia villosoviridescens and certain hoverflies.
Flowering Period: July-August-September.
Status: Very common.
References and Further Reading:
The Wildflower Key by Francis Rose.
Flowers of Europe by Oleg Polunin.
Tela Botanica.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
All photos will enlarge in a new window if you click on them. Row 1 Detail of a colony on the side of a bief (millstream) in the Aigronne Valley, photographed in May with Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn Agapanthia villosovirdescens.
English Name: Marsh Thistle.
French Name: Le Cirse de marais
5 Key Characters:- the stems have winged spines along more or less the entire length.
- flower heads in crowded clusters.
- erect, hairy, branching plant 30 - 150 cm high.
- leaves spiny, dark green and hairy on top.
- flower heads emerge from purplish somewhat spiky bases.
Habitat: Marshes, meadows, damp grassland, open woodland and hedges. It is the host plant for a variety of insects who lay their eggs in the stems and have larvae which live inside them eg Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn beetle Agapanthia villosoviridescens and certain hoverflies.
Flowering Period: July-August-September.
Status: Very common.
References and Further Reading:
The Wildflower Key by Francis Rose.
Flowers of Europe by Oleg Polunin.
Tela Botanica.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
All photos will enlarge in a new window if you click on them. Row 1 Detail of a colony on the side of a bief (millstream) in the Aigronne Valley, photographed in May with Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn Agapanthia villosovirdescens.
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