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Cirsium foliosum
Also called Leafy Thistle, Foliose Thistle, Drummond's Thistle, Meadow Thistle
Elk thistle (Cirsium foliosum) is a North American wild thistle, usually a short-lived perennial or biennial that flowers once and then dies, native to northern North America and Wyoming. It is a wild meadow plant rather than a common garden or houseplant.
Cirsium foliosum, also called leafy thistle, foliose thistle, elk thistle, or Evert's thistle, is a North American plant species in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The species is native to Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta, British Columbia, and Wyoming.
Cirsium foliosum is a biennial or perennial herb up to 70 cm (28 inches) tall, blooming only once before dying. Leaves have thin spines along the edges. There are several flowering heads per plant, with white or pale pink disc florets but no ray florets.
Creeping Thistle · Edible thistle · Yellow thistle · Marsh Thistle · Brook Thistle · Meadow thistle · Wavyleaf thistle · Spear Thistle · Thistle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cirsium foliosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
