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Onopordum nervosum
Reticulate thistle is a spiny, silver-grey biennial or short-lived perennial thistle from the Iberian Peninsula, grown for its striking architectural form. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and it self-seeds readily.
Onopordum nervosum, called Moor's cotton thistle or reticulate thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Onopordum native to the Iberian Peninsula. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Cotton Thistle · Illyrian cottonthistle · Bull cottonthistle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Onopordum nervosum 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.
