The Sacramento Mountains thistle is a rare purple flower than can grow to be six feet tall and lives only in wet, high-elevation habitats in the Sacramento Mountains near the town of Cloudcroft, New ...

The thistle grows across temperate climates, gracing meadows, roadsides, and boggy areas with its delicate purple, pink, white, and yellow flowers. In some regions, the plants are seen as weeds ...

European marsh thistle, a terrestrial and wetland herbaceous biennial ... are alternate with deeply pinnate segments and spiny teeth along leaf margins flowers are purple, disk-shaped, and covered in ...

flowers purple (occasionally white) in heads 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter; involucral bracts spineless. Fruits are about 1/8 inch long, somewhat flattened, brownish, with a tuft of hairs at the top.