Meaning of musk thistle | Babel Free

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A biennial herb of species Carduus nutans, in the sunflower family Asteraceae with a large drooping purple flower head, native to parts of Eurasia and North Africa and a common invasive species elsewhere.

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“The Muske-Thistle I haue seene growing about Deptford, and (as far as my memory serues me) it is very like⟳ to the third here described: it growes better than a cubit high, with reasonable large leaues, and also heads which are a little soft or downy, large, with purple floures: the heads before the floures open⟳ smell⟳ strong of muske.”

“Musk thistle is spreading rapidly in areas of eastern Idaho, especially in counties bordering Wyoming and Montana. At the present⟳ time there are localized infestations extending from Bear⟳ Lake to the Lolo Pass⟳ in northern Idaho.”

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