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Cirsium rivulare
Brook Thistle is a clump-forming perennial thistle from Europe, growing to about 1.5 m with purple globular flowerheads in early to midsummer. It likes moist soil, though it tolerates some dryness, and grows best in full sun.
Cirsium rivulare is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to
eastern and western Europe, adventive in Britain, and naturalised in Sweden and Belgium.
Creeping Thistle · Edible thistle · Elk thistle · Yellow thistle · Marsh Thistle · Meadow thistle · Wavyleaf thistle · Spear Thistle · Thistle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cirsium rivulare 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.
